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Climate Change and World Food Security

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Thomas E. Downing

    1. Environmental Change Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 37)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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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

  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
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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.

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

    Thomas E. Downing

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