Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis

ISBN 10: 0896292088 / ISBN 13: 9780896292086

Published by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPR, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis
• Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPR
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896292088
• ISBN 13: 9780896292086
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. Southern Africa’s population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.