Editorial on the Research TopicThe impact of climate change on nutrient composition of staple foods and the role of diversification in increasing food system resilience A staple food crop is a crop that makes up the dominant part of a population's diet, being the primary source of energy and nutrition. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that maize, rice and wheat provide about 60 per cent of the world's food energy intake. Soybean (an oil crop) is the most commonly used crop in animal feed since it has high protein content. Given the high demand for these four crops, several agricultural technologies and practices have focused on increasing their productivity and adaptation to different environmental conditions (HarvestPlus, 2021). Specific interventions include increased technological investment, biofortification programs, machinery and selective agrochemicals, and advanced agronomic management practices.However, agricultural conditions are rapidly changing due to current climate change events. These include increased greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere, global air temperature increase, drought events, sea surface temperature, and erratic precipitation patterns (Jones and Driscoll, 2022). These events harm crop production and setback the developed efforts to ensure a stable supply to the growing world's population. Therefore, food security is at risk, and current food systems are under extreme pressure, which evidences the inequalities in food access and availability, access to land, and the working conditions for farm workers (Farooq et al., 2022). Adding on to food insecurity, undetermined consequences of climate change on agricultural production may also aggravate nutritional insecurity, which consists of the insufficient intake of essential nutritional components, such as vitamins, minerals, protein, or fat (Semba et al., 2022).Current food systems are drivers of the climate change scenario. They contribute to about 35% of the global GHG emissions, biodiversity loss, and water pollution, all of which being highly unsustainable (Xu et al., 2021). A transition to a more climate-positive strategy in the Frontiers in Plant Science frontiersin.org 01