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Climate Change and World Food Security: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Climate Change and World Food Security", Held in Oxford, U.K., July 11-15, 1993: v. 37 (NATO ASI) - Hardcover

 
9783540605621: Climate Change and World Food Security: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Climate Change and World Food Security", Held in Oxford, U.K., July 11-15, 1993: v. 37 (NATO ASI)

Synopsis

This text addresses the threat climate change poses to world food security. It reviews trends in agriculture and food security and provides projections of the incidence and distribution of hunger over the next few decades; the risk and global impacts of climate change on agricultural systems, relying on alternative models of world agricultural potential that have simulated the impacts of climate change; vulnerability and multiple threats to sustainable agriculture; studies of local impacts and responses; and strategies to limit climate change and improve food security.

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Synopsis

This text addresses the threat climate change poses to world food security. It reviews trends in agriculture and food security and provides projections of the incidence and distribution of hunger over the next few decades; the risk and global impacts of climate change on agricultural systems, relying on alternative models of world agricultural potential that have simulated the impacts of climate change; vulnerability and multiple threats to sustainable agriculture; studies of local impacts and responses; and strategies to limit climate change and improve food security.

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