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Environment & Agriculture >> Climate: Implications for Agriculture

Climate change has already begun to affect food production. Estimates of the type of effects and magnitude vary by location, food crop, and other factors, and depend on the level of climate change. Models suggest an initial reduction in agricultural productivity in some locations with an increase in productivity elsewhere. However, beyond a certain level of increase (perhaps 3o C), effects may become negative in most places.

See also Climate: Agriculture’s Contribution

Recommended resources on this topic:

Reports & Other Documents

Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation

International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009.

The Food & Farming Transition: Toward a Post Carbon Food System

Post Carbon Institute, Spring 2009.

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High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy

United Nations, June 2008.

The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the U.S.

U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, May 2008.

In Dead Water: Merging of Climate Change with Pollution, Over-Harvest, and Infestations in the World's Fishing Grounds

United Nations Environment Program, February 2008.

Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Poverty Reduction – How Much Do We Know?

Overseas Development Institute, September 2007.

Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Chapters 5 and 8)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007.

Climate Change and Food Security: A Framework Document (summary)

United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2007.

Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), 2007.

Human Development Report 2007/2008: Fighting Climate Change – Human Solidarity in a Divided World

United Nations Development Programme, 2007.

Agriculture and Climate Change: The Policy Context

World Resources Institute, October 2006.

Crop Production in a Changing Climate: Global Environment Outlook (GEO)

United Nations Environment Programme, 2006.

Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability

Report prepared for World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002.

Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: The Impacts of Warming and Extreme Weather Events on Productivity, Plant Diseases, and Pests

Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, 2000.

Agriculture & Global Climate Change: A Review of Impacts to U.S. Agricultural Resources

Report for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, February 1999.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Climate benefits of changing diet

E. Stehfest, et al. Climatic Change; Feb. 4, 2009.

Food security, climate change and heath promotion: opening up the streams not just helping out down stream

J. Catford. Health Promot Int, June 2008.

Anthropogenic increase in carbon dioxide compromises plant defense against invasive insects

J. A. Zavala, et al. PNAS; April 1, 2008.

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Climate. Food security under climate change

M.E. Brown and C.C. Funk. Science; Feb. 1, 2008.

Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security in 2030

D.B. Lobell, et al. Science; Feb. 1, 2008.

Global food security under climate change

J. Schmidhuber and F. N. Tubiello. PNAS, December 2007.

Climate Change and Food Security (7 reports)

Proc Natl Acad Sci; Dec. 11, 2007.

Climate change, biofuels, and global food security

K.G. Cassman. Environ Res Lett, 2007 (No. 2).

Food for thought: lower-than-expected crop yield stimulation with rising CO2 concentrations

S.P. Long, et al. Science; June 30, 2006.

Introduction: Food Crops in a Changing Climate (part of special issue)

J.M. Slingo, et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; Nov. 29, 2005.

Climate Change Adaptation in Light of Sustainable Agriculture

E. Wall and B. Smit. J Sustain Agr, December 2005.

Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios

M.L. Parry, et al. Global Environ Change; April 2004.

U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results

J. Reilly, et al. Climatic Change, March 2003.

Increased crop damage in the US from excess precipitation under climate change

C.E. Rosenzweig, et al. Global Environ Change; October 2002.

Potential impact of climate change on world food supply

C. Rosenzweig and M.L. Parry. Nature; Jan. 13, 1994.

Relevant Organizations

Food and Climate Research Network

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Food & Agriculture Organization (U.N.)

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Additional Tools & Resources

California Climate Change Portal

Climate Change Information Sheet 10: Agriculture and Food Security

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Climate and Farming.org

Educational resources (fact sheets, Powerpoint presentations, etc.).

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