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...