Ebook: World Food and Agriculture to 2030/50: How do climate change and bioenergy alter the long-term outlook for food, agriculture and resource availability?

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Expert Meeting on How to Feed the World in 2050, 24-26 June 2009, 49 pp.
This paper presents an integrated agro-ecological and socio-economic spatial global assessment of the interlinkages of emerging biofuels developments, food security, and climate change. The explicit purpose is to quantify as to what extent climate change and expansion of biofuel production may alter the long-term outlook for food, agriculture and resource availability developed by the FAO in its Agriculture Toward 2030/50.

Contents.
Introduction.
Methodology and data.
Baseline assessment.
Climate change impacts on crop suitability and production potential.
Impacts of climate change on world food system indicators.
Impacts of biofuel expansion on world food system indicators.
Impacts of first-generation biofuel expansion on food system indicators.
Second-generation biofuels.
Combined impacts of climate change and expansion of biofuel production on world food system indicators.
Conclusions.
References.