Climate Change and Food Security Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lobell, David (Editor), Burke, Marshall (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 37
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Earth sciences.; Agriculture.; Sustainable development.; Climate Change.; Sustainable Development.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Earth Sciences, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• I
• Climate Effects on Food Security: An Overview
• Climate Models and Their Projections of Future Changes
• II
• Crop Response to Climate: Ecophysiological Models
• Crop Responses to Climate: Time-Series Models
• Crop Responses to Climate and Weather: Cross-Section and Panel Models
• Direct Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on Crop Yields
• III
• Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change: What Do We Know?
• Breeding Strategies to Adapt Crops to a Changing Climate
• IV
• Global and Regional Assessments
• Where Do We Go from Here?
• Erratum.