How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis
Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, particularly from climate change. This is largely because povert...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Ringler, Claudia |
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| description | Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, particularly from climate change. This is largely because poverty levels are high, and developing-country capacity to adapt to global change is weak. Furthermore, the rural populations of developing countries—for whom agricultural production is the primary source of direct and indirect employment and income—will be most affected due agriculture’s vulnerability to global change processes. The agricultural sector is the largest consumer of water resources, and variability in water supply has a major influence on health and welfare in poor areas. With water scarcity and extreme weather events expected to increase under climate change, water security could decline significantly in rural areas. Consequently, it is important to understand the impacts of global change (in terms of climate, demography, technology, and so on) on agriculture and natural resources in developing countries and to develop adaptive capacity to respond to these impacts. Moreover, there is a need to develop informed and effective adaptation measures and investment options that can be taken now to alleviate adverse impacts of global change in the future. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1611152025-11-06T04:34:49Z How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis Ringler, Claudia food security climate variability climate change water security Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, particularly from climate change. This is largely because poverty levels are high, and developing-country capacity to adapt to global change is weak. Furthermore, the rural populations of developing countries—for whom agricultural production is the primary source of direct and indirect employment and income—will be most affected due agriculture’s vulnerability to global change processes. The agricultural sector is the largest consumer of water resources, and variability in water supply has a major influence on health and welfare in poor areas. With water scarcity and extreme weather events expected to increase under climate change, water security could decline significantly in rural areas. Consequently, it is important to understand the impacts of global change (in terms of climate, demography, technology, and so on) on agriculture and natural resources in developing countries and to develop adaptive capacity to respond to these impacts. Moreover, there is a need to develop informed and effective adaptation measures and investment options that can be taken now to alleviate adverse impacts of global change in the future. 2008 2024-11-21T09:53:34Z 2024-11-21T09:53:34Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161115 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ringler, Claudia. 2008. How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes. How can African agriculture adapt to climate change; Research Brief 15(1). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161115 |
| spellingShingle | food security climate variability climate change water security Ringler, Claudia How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis |
| title | How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis |
| title_full | How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis |
| title_fullStr | How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis |
| title_short | How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: The impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes: A framework for analysis |
| title_sort | how can african agriculture adapt to climate change the impact of climate variability and climate change on water and food outcomes a framework for analysis |
| topic | food security climate variability climate change water security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161115 |
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