Agriculture and food security

This section contains reference materials on the impacts of, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in agriculture sector; also included are modelling tools and data sources for undertaking V&A assessments for agriculture.

References

Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios [ M. Parry et al., 2004]
Climate variability and chagne: implications for household food security [G. Ziervogel et al., 2006]

Adaptation measures for maize and soybean in southeastern South America [M.L. Travasso et al., 2006]
A comparison of the social vulnerability of grain farmers in Mexico and Argentina [H. Eakin et al., 2006]
Making economic sense of adaptation in Upland cereal production systems in the Gambia [M. Njie et al., 2006]
Climate risk and rice farming in the lower Mekong River countries [S. Chinvanno et al., 2006]
Evaluation of adaptation measures for livestock sector in Mongolia [P. Batima et al., 2006]
Climate Change and Variability in the Mixed Crop/Livestock Production Systems of the Argentinean, Brazilian and Uruguayan Pampas [Agustin Gimenez, 2006]
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: The Case of Farmers in Mexico and Argentina [Carlos Gay, 2006]
Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Livestock Sector of Mongolia [Batima, Punsalmaa, 2006]
Food Security, Climate Variability and Climate Change in Sub Saharan West Africa [J. Adejuwon, 2006]
Assessment of Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability to Climate Change in North Africa: Food Production and Water Resources (Abou-Hadid, Ayman F., 2006]
An integrated modelling approach to conduct multi-factorial analyses on the impacts of climate change on whole-farm systems [M. Rivington, 2007]
Potential imapcts of climate change on agriculture: a case study of coffee production in Veracruz, Mexico [G. Gay et al., 2006] (abstract)
Adaptation of crops to climate change through genotypic responses to mean and extreme temperatures [A.J. Challinor et al., 2006]
Adaptation to climate change in agriculture, forestry and fisheries: perspectives, frameworks and priorities [FAO, 2007]
Implications of Climate Change for International Agriculture: Crop Modeling Study. EPA 230-B-94-003. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [Rosenzweig, C. and A. Iglesias (eds.). 1994]
Future climate change and regional fisheries: a collaborative analysis [FAO, 2003]
Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Tuna Fisheries in Fiji Islands and Kiribati [Aaheim, A. and L. Sygna, 2000]
Assessing the suitability of the epic crop model for use in the study of impacts of climate variabiliti and climate change in West Africa [Adejuwon, J., 2005]
Adapting food systems of the Indo-Gangetic plains to global environmental change: Key information needs to improve policy formulation [P.K. Aggarwal et al., 2004]
Adaptation, Spatial Heterogeneity, and the Vulnerability of Agricultural Systems to Climate Change and CO₂ Fertilization: An Integrated Assessment Approach [J.M. Antle et al., 2004]
Impacts of climate change on natural forest productivity - evidence since the middle of the 20th century [Boisvenue, C. and S.W. Running, 2006]
The future for fish in the food and livelihoods of the poor in Asia [Briones, M., Dey, M.M., and Ahmed, 2004]
Climate-vegetation interaction [Brovkin, V., 2002]
Achieving adequate adaptation in agriculture [Burton, I. and B. Lim, 2005]
Cattle population dynamics in the Southern Ethiopian Rangelands [Desta, S. and D.L. Coppock, 2002]
Responses of grassland production to single and multiple global environmental changes [Dukes, J.S., N.R. Chiariello, E.E. Cleland et al., 2005]
Climate change impacts on crop yield and quality with CO₂fertilization in China [L. Erda et al., 2005]
Special Event on Impact of Climate Change, Pests and Diseases on Food Security and Poverty Reduction. Background Document. [FAO, 2005]
Socio-economic and climate change impacts on agriculture: an integrated assessment, 1990-2080 [G. Fischer et al., 2005]
Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability, contribution to the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002 [G. Fischer et al., 2002]
Consumption in the lower Mekong basin as a measure of fish yield [Hortle, K. and S. Bush, 2003]
The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055 [Jones, P.G. and P.K. Thornton, 2003]
Climate Change and Agriculture: A Review of Impacts and Adaptation [Kurukulasuriya, P. and S. Rosenthal, 2003]
Effect of management strategies on reducing heat stress of freedlot cattle: feed and water intake [Mader, T.L. and M.S. Davis, 2004]
Modelling the impacts of climate change and methane emission reductions on rice production: a review [Matthews, R. and R. Wassmann, 2003]
Community-based Drought Management for the Pastoral Livestock Sector n Sub-Saharan Africa, ALive Initiative Policy Options Paper [Morton, J. and C. de Haan, 2006]
Climate change, global food supply and risk of hunger [Parry, M., C. Rosenzweig, and M. Livermore, 2005]
Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming [Peng, S., J. Huang, J.E. Sheehy et al., 2004]
Impacts of climate change on the global forest sector [J. Perez-Garcia et al., 2002]
Targeting seasonal climate forecasts for integration into household level decisions: the case of smallholder farmers in Lesotho [Ziervogel, G., 2003]
Food crops in changing climate [Slingo, J.M., A.J. Challinor, B.J. Hoskins and T.R. Wheeler, 2005]

Modelling tools

CropWat for windows - CropWat for Windows is a program that uses the FAO (1992) Penman-Monteith methods for calculating reference crop evapotranspiration. These estimates are used in crop water requirements and irrigation scheduling calculations.

Download the programme
User's guide
Download climatic data to be used with CropWat for Windows (Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Near East and North Africa, South America, Europe, Central America and Caribbean Islands)
Visit FAO's website for more information on CropWat for Windows

Data sources

Knowledge Network on Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change

NCSP Online Network for Second National Communications From Non-Annex I Parties to UNFCCC

Agriculture and food security

This section contains reference materials on the impacts of, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in agriculture sector; also included are modelling tools and data sources for undertaking V&A assessments for agriculture.