World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy

作者: S. Ramasamy

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9516-9_13

关键词: ProductivityClimate changePolitical economy of climate changePopulation growthAgricultureFood securityAgricultural economicsEnvironmental scienceSustainabilityLivestock

摘要: Over 1.02 billion people in the world suffer from hunger today. Securing food security light of impact climate change may be one biggest challenges we face this century. Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to change. Rising temperatures, more intense droughts, floods, and greater weather variability all mean productivity losses crops livestock. Greater numbers crop failures, livestock deaths, forest fires, damage fishery infrastructure are already imposing economic undermining security. The overall impacts on agriculture expected negative, threatening global

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