Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security

Over the past several years many global reports and scientific articles have offered guidance to policy makers on how climate change is likely to affect global food security. But these publications paint an incomplete, and likely overly optimistic, picture of the threat that anthropogenic environmen...

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Main Authors: Myer, Samuel, Fanzo, Jessica, Wiebe, Keith D., Huybers, Peter, Smith, Matthew R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: BMJ 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127220
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description Over the past several years many global reports and scientific articles have offered guidance to policy makers on how climate change is likely to affect global food security. But these publications paint an incomplete, and likely overly optimistic, picture of the threat that anthropogenic environmental change poses to food production, nutrition, and health. Projected effects of climate change on food security are often based on crop models that incorporate only a few dimensions of climate related biophysical change—usually characterized by changes in temperature and precipitation. Omitted from these mathematical models are other biophysical changes related to a disrupted climate system and, importantly, other anthropogenic biophysical changes that are also likely to affect the quality or quantity of food the world can produce.
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spelling CGSpace1272202025-10-26T12:55:28Z Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security Myer, Samuel Fanzo, Jessica Wiebe, Keith D. Huybers, Peter Smith, Matthew R. policies food security crop modelling climate change biophysics nutrition health food production anthropogenic factors temperature precipitation mathematical models Over the past several years many global reports and scientific articles have offered guidance to policy makers on how climate change is likely to affect global food security. But these publications paint an incomplete, and likely overly optimistic, picture of the threat that anthropogenic environmental change poses to food production, nutrition, and health. Projected effects of climate change on food security are often based on crop models that incorporate only a few dimensions of climate related biophysical change—usually characterized by changes in temperature and precipitation. Omitted from these mathematical models are other biophysical changes related to a disrupted climate system and, importantly, other anthropogenic biophysical changes that are also likely to affect the quality or quantity of food the world can produce. 2022-09-29 2023-01-16T15:21:18Z 2023-01-16T15:21:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127220 en https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1222465110 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0192-z https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(19)30094-4 https://doi.org/0.1098/rstb.2015.0467 Open Access BMJ Myer, Samuel; Fanzo, Jessica; Wiebe, Keith D.; Huybers, Peter; and Smith, Matthew. 2022. Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security. BMJ: British Medical Journal 378: e071533. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-071533
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crop modelling
climate change
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anthropogenic factors
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Fanzo, Jessica
Wiebe, Keith D.
Huybers, Peter
Smith, Matthew R.
Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
title Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
title_full Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
title_fullStr Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
title_full_unstemmed Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
title_short Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
title_sort current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental change to food security
topic policies
food security
crop modelling
climate change
biophysics
nutrition
health
food production
anthropogenic factors
temperature
precipitation
mathematical models
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