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
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 37
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Geography.; Agriculture.; Climatic changes.; Sustainable development.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Earth Sciences, general.; Sustainable Development.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2953-9

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:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Climate effects on food security: an overview
• 3 Climate models and their projections of future changes
• 4 Crop response to climate: ecophysiological models
• 5 Crop responses to climate: time-series models
• 6 Crop responses to climate and weather: cross-section and panel models
• 7 Direct effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone on crop yields
• 8 Food security and adaptation to climate change: what do we know?- 9 Breeding strategies to adapt crops to a changing climate
• 10 Global and regional assessments
• 11 Where do we go from here?.