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Reducing risks to food security from climate change

  • Publication | 2016
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, with very little attention paid to more systems components of cropping, let alone other dimensions of food security. Given the serious threats to food security, attention should shift to an action-oriented research agenda, where we see four key challenges: (a) changing the culture of research; (b) deriving stakeholder-driven portfolios of options for farmers, communities and countries; (c) ensuring that adaptation actions are relevant to those most vulnerable to climate change; (d) combining adaptation and mitigation.

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Authors
Bruce M. Campbell
Sonja J. Vermeulen
Pramod K. Aggarwal
Caitlin Corner-Dolloff
Evan Girvetz
Ana Maria Loboguerrero
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Todd Rosenstock
Leocadio Sebastian
Philip K. Thornton
Eva Wollenberg
DOI
10.1016/j.gfs.2016.06.002
Publisher
Elsevier
Geographic coverageGlobalWorld
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18 Apr 2019

Knowledge service | MetadataGlobal Food and Nutrition Security | Food crises and food and nutrition security | Climate extreme
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)climate changeCrop yieldfood securityMitigation
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