Reducing risks to food security from climate change

Bruce Morgan Campbell; Sonja Joy Vermeulen; Pramod Aggarwal; Caitlin Corner-Dolloff; Evan Girvetz; Ana Maria Loboguerrero; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Todd Rosenstock; Leocadio Sebastian; Philip K. Thornton; Eva Wollenberg

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2016.06.002

Reducing risks to food security from climate change

Bruce Morgan Campbell^*, Sonja Joy Vermeulen, Pramod Aggarwal, Caitlin Corner-Dolloff, Evan Girvetz, Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Todd Rosenstock, Leocadio Sebastian, Philip K. Thornton, Eva Wollenberg

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

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Abstract

Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, with very little attention paid to more systems components of cropping, let alone other dimensions of food security. Given the serious threats to food security, attention should shift to an action-oriented research agenda, where we see four key challenges: (a) changing the culture of research; (b) deriving stakeholder-driven portfolios of options for farmers, communities and countries; (c) ensuring that adaptation actions are relevant to those most vulnerable to climate change; (d) combining adaptation and mitigation.

Original language	English
Journal	Global Food Security
Volume	11
Pages (from-to)	34-43
Number of pages	10
ISSN	2211-9124
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2016.06.002
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Crop-climate models
Food system
Mitigation
Prioritization
Research-implementation gap
Vulnerability

UN SDGs

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