Climate Change and World Food Security

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Thomas E. Downing, Robert S. Chen, Robert W. Kates, Martin L. Parry

      Pages 3-19

3. Trends in Agriculture and Food Security

   1. Towards a Food-Secure World: Prospects and Trends

      • Robert S. Chen, Robert W. Kates

      Pages 23-51

   2. Demand and Supply: Trends in Global Agriculture

      • Pierre Crosson, Jock R. Anderson

      Pages 53-73

4. Risk and Global Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Systems

   1. The Future of Climate: Potential for Interaction and Surprises

      • Stephen H. Schneider

      Pages 77-113

   2. Impacts of Potential Climate Change on Global and Regional Food Production and Vulnerability

      • Güunther Fischer, Klaus Frohberg, Martin L. Parry, Cynthia Rosenzweig

      Pages 115-159

   3. Climate Change and Agricultural Trade: Who Benefits, Who Loses?

      • John Reilly, Neil Hohmann, Sally Kane

      Pages 161-180

5. Vulnerability and Multiple Threats to Sustainable Agriculture

   1. Climate Change and Food Insecurity: Toward a Sociology and Geography of Vulnerability

      • Thomas E. Downing, Michael J. Watts, Hans G. Bohle

      Pages 183-206

   2. Changing Vulnerability to Food Insecurity and the International Response: The Experience of the World Food Programme

      • Bruce Crawshaw, John Shaw

      Pages 207-226

   3. The Conjunction of Threats to Regional Food Production: How Serious Are Environment, Economy, Population and Climate?

      • David Norse

      Pages 227-256

   4. Climate Change and Involuntary Migration: Implications for Food Security

      • JoAnn McGregor

      Pages 257-275

   5. Scenarios of Sustainability: The Challenges of Describing Desirable Features

      • Dale S. Rothman, Robert Coppock

      Pages 277-288

6. Local Impacts and Responses to Global Change

   1. Climate Change and the Agro-ecosystems in China

      • Futang Wang, Zong-ci Zhao

      Pages 291-305

   2. Agricultural Vulnerability and Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

      • Z. Karim

      Pages 307-346

   3. Vulnerability of Bangladesh to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

      • Saleem-ul Huq, Ahsan U. Ahmed, Rob Koudstaal

      Pages 347-379

   4. Enhancing Food Security in a Warmer and More Crowded World: Factors and Processes in Fragile Zones

      • Narpat S. Jodha

      Pages 381-419

   5. Global Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity in Southern Africa: Thought for Food and Food for Thought

      • Roland E. Schulze, Gregory A. Kiker, Richard P. Kunz

      Pages 421-447

   6. Climate Change: Some Likely Multiple Impacts in Southern Africa

      • Chris H. D. Magadza

      Pages 449-483

   7. Adaptation of Food Production to Drought in the Senegal River Basin

      • Brad Bass, Henry Venema, Eric Schiller

      Pages 485-503

   8. Pastoralist Production Systems and Climate Change

      • Katherine Homewood

      Pages 505-524

In the last half decade since sustainable development became a serious objective, what have we achieved? Are livelihoods more secure? Are nations wealthier and more resilient? Is environmental quality being restored or maintained? These are essential questions of development. Their answers are many, varied between communities and regions, even between individuals. Two years ago, in the aftermath of the Earth Summit and ratification of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, but before the first Conference of Parties, I participated in a panel at the inaugural Oxford Environment Conference on Climate Change and World Food Security. The panel vigorously reviewed issues of resilient development and food security. This book is a product of the Oxford Environment Conference. It takes the essential questions of sustainability as a starting point to focus on present food security and its future prospects in the face of climate change. Why is this book important? First, I believe our goals to end hunger are under threat. We know what to do in many respects, but fail to generate the finances and political will to change the structures that thrive on poverty. Second, I believe concern about the environment has become dangerously separated from the fundamental issues of human deprivation. Third, I believe climate change is a serious threat and I am dismayed at the way nations dither over how to control greenhouse gas emissions and mechanisms to meet the challenge of adverse climate impacts.

• Climate Change
• Klimaveränderung
• Landwirtschaft
• Nahrungsmittel, Sicherung der
• agriculture
• food security
• nachhaltige Entwicklung
• sustainable development

• Environmental Change Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Thomas E. Downing

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