Climate Change and Food Security: Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World (Advances in Global Change Research, 37) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9048129524 ISBN 13: 9789048129522

Publisher: Springer, 2009

Synopsis

This book explores the different methodologies and data used to understand climate’s effect on food security. It explains the nature of the climate threat, ways that crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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

Review:

From the reviews:

"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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9048129524
• ISBN 13: 9789048129522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Lobell David B., Burke Marshall