Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
The Challenge: The unimpeded growth of greenhouse gas emissions is raising the earth's temperature. The consequences include melting glaciers, more precipitation, more and more extreme weather events, and shifting seasons. The accelerating pace of climate change, combined with global population and...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Nelson, Gerald C. Rosegrant, Mark W. Koo, Jawoo Robertson, Richard D. Sulser, Timothy B. Zhu, Tingju Ringler, Claudia Msangi, Siwa Palazzo, Amanda Batka, Miroslav Magalhaes, Marilia Valmonte-Santos, Rowena Ewing, Mandy Lee, David R. |
| author_browse | Batka, Miroslav Ewing, Mandy Koo, Jawoo Lee, David R. Magalhaes, Marilia Msangi, Siwa Nelson, Gerald C. Palazzo, Amanda Ringler, Claudia Robertson, Richard D. Rosegrant, Mark W. Sulser, Timothy B. Valmonte-Santos, Rowena Zhu, Tingju |
| author_facet | Nelson, Gerald C. Rosegrant, Mark W. Koo, Jawoo Robertson, Richard D. Sulser, Timothy B. Zhu, Tingju Ringler, Claudia Msangi, Siwa Palazzo, Amanda Batka, Miroslav Magalhaes, Marilia Valmonte-Santos, Rowena Ewing, Mandy Lee, David R. |
| author_sort | Nelson, Gerald C. |
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| description | The Challenge: The unimpeded growth of greenhouse gas emissions is raising the earth's temperature. The consequences include melting glaciers, more precipitation, more and more extreme weather events, and shifting seasons. The accelerating pace of climate change, combined with global population and income growth, threatens food security everywhere. Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation. Changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of short-run crop failures and long-run production declines. Although there will be gains in some crops in some regions of the world, the overall impacts of climate change on agriculture are expected to be negative, threatening global food security. Populations in the developing world, which are already vulnerable and food insecure, are likely to be the most seriously affected. In 2005, nearly half of the economically active population in developing countries-2.5 billion people- relied on agriculture for its livelihood. Today, 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas. This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify the climate-change impacts mentioned above, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being. This analysis brings together, for the first time, detailed modeling of crop growth under climate change with insights from an extremely detailed global agriculture model, using two climate scenarios to simulate future climate. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1620502025-11-06T07:48:56Z Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation Nelson, Gerald C. Rosegrant, Mark W. Koo, Jawoo Robertson, Richard D. Sulser, Timothy B. Zhu, Tingju Ringler, Claudia Msangi, Siwa Palazzo, Amanda Batka, Miroslav Magalhaes, Marilia Valmonte-Santos, Rowena Ewing, Mandy Lee, David R. climate change adaptation food security agriculture developing countries The Challenge: The unimpeded growth of greenhouse gas emissions is raising the earth's temperature. The consequences include melting glaciers, more precipitation, more and more extreme weather events, and shifting seasons. The accelerating pace of climate change, combined with global population and income growth, threatens food security everywhere. Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation. Changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of short-run crop failures and long-run production declines. Although there will be gains in some crops in some regions of the world, the overall impacts of climate change on agriculture are expected to be negative, threatening global food security. Populations in the developing world, which are already vulnerable and food insecure, are likely to be the most seriously affected. In 2005, nearly half of the economically active population in developing countries-2.5 billion people- relied on agriculture for its livelihood. Today, 75 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas. This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify the climate-change impacts mentioned above, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being. This analysis brings together, for the first time, detailed modeling of crop growth under climate change with insights from an extremely detailed global agriculture model, using two climate scenarios to simulate future climate. 2009 2024-11-21T10:00:47Z 2024-11-21T10:00:47Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162050 en es fr https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294165 Open Access application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Nelson, Gerald C.; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Koo, Jawoo; Robertson, Richard D.; Sulser, Timothy; Zhu, Tingju; Ringler, Claudia; Msangi, Siwa; Palazzo, Amanda; Batka, Miroslav; Magalhaes, Marilia; Valmonte-Santos, Rowena; Ewing, Mandy; Lee, David R. 2009. Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation. Food Policy Report 21. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162050 |
| spellingShingle | climate change adaptation food security agriculture developing countries Nelson, Gerald C. Rosegrant, Mark W. Koo, Jawoo Robertson, Richard D. Sulser, Timothy B. Zhu, Tingju Ringler, Claudia Msangi, Siwa Palazzo, Amanda Batka, Miroslav Magalhaes, Marilia Valmonte-Santos, Rowena Ewing, Mandy Lee, David R. Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| title | Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| title_full | Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| title_fullStr | Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| title_short | Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| title_sort | climate change impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation |
| topic | climate change adaptation food security agriculture developing countries |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162050 |
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