Ebook: Climate Change and Food Security: Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
- Tags: Climate Change, Agriculture, Earth Sciences general, Sustainable Development
- Series: Advances in Global Change Research 37
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data.
This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.
"This book provides a much needed analysis of the interactions between climate change and the food system, with emphasis on how food security is likely to be affected and interventions needed to adapt to a warmer world."
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, New York, USA
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data.
This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.
"This book provides a much needed analysis of the interactions between climate change and the food system, with emphasis on how food security is likely to be affected and interventions needed to adapt to a warmer world."
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, New York, USA
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data.
This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.
"This book provides a much needed analysis of the interactions between climate change and the food system, with emphasis on how food security is likely to be affected and interventions needed to adapt to a warmer world."
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, New York, USA
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-12
Climate Effects on Food Security: An Overview....Pages 13-30
Climate Models and Their Projections of Future Changes....Pages 31-56
Front Matter....Pages 58-58
Crop Response to Climate: Ecophysiological Models....Pages 59-83
Crop Responses to Climate: Time-Series Models....Pages 85-98
Crop Responses to Climate and Weather: Cross-Section and Panel Models....Pages 99-108
Direct Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on Crop Yields....Pages 109-130
Front Matter....Pages 132-132
Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change: What Do We Know?....Pages 133-153
Breeding Strategies to Adapt Crops to a Changing Climate....Pages 155-174
Front Matter....Pages 176-176
Global and Regional Assessments....Pages 177-192
Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 193-196
Erratum....Pages 197-197
Back Matter....Pages 197-199
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data.
This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.
"This book provides a much needed analysis of the interactions between climate change and the food system, with emphasis on how food security is likely to be affected and interventions needed to adapt to a warmer world."
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, New York, USA
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-12
Climate Effects on Food Security: An Overview....Pages 13-30
Climate Models and Their Projections of Future Changes....Pages 31-56
Front Matter....Pages 58-58
Crop Response to Climate: Ecophysiological Models....Pages 59-83
Crop Responses to Climate: Time-Series Models....Pages 85-98
Crop Responses to Climate and Weather: Cross-Section and Panel Models....Pages 99-108
Direct Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on Crop Yields....Pages 109-130
Front Matter....Pages 132-132
Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change: What Do We Know?....Pages 133-153
Breeding Strategies to Adapt Crops to a Changing Climate....Pages 155-174
Front Matter....Pages 176-176
Global and Regional Assessments....Pages 177-192
Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 193-196
Erratum....Pages 197-197
Back Matter....Pages 197-199
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