Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System.

Contributor(s): Washington, D.C. : United States, Dept. of Agriculture, 2015Description: 157 p. digital, PDF file, illContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD9000.6 .U58 2015
Online resources: Summary: This state-of-the-science assessment establishes the technical foundation for managing food security outcomes around the world and for preparing consumers, agricultural producers, and others in the United States for changing conditions. This report, in response to the President's Climate Action Plan, integrates research from the biophysical and the social sciences, across multiple sectors, to evaluate climate-driven changes in global food security and analyze the U.S. role in food security in a changing world.
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NCAR's primary sponsor is the National Science Foundation.

This document and all individual sections herein may be cited as follows:
Brown, M.E., J.M. Antle, P. Backlund, E.R. Carr, W.E. Easterling, M.K. Walsh, C. Ammann, W. Attavanich, C.B. Barrett, M.F.
Bellemare, V. Dancheck, C. Funk, K. Grace, J.S.I. Ingram, H. Jiang, H. Maletta, T. Mata, A. Murray, M. Ngugi, D. Ojima, B.
O’Neill, and C. Tebaldi. 2015. Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System. 146 pages. Available online
at http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/FoodSecurity2015Assessment/FullAssessment.pdf.
Additional Technical Contributors: Mamta Chaudhari (GWU), Shannon Mesenhowski (USAID), Micah Rosenblum (USDA
FAS), Isabel Walls (USDA NIFA), and Keith Wiebe (IFPRI)
DOI: 10.7930/J0862DC7

This state-of-the-science assessment establishes the technical foundation for managing food security outcomes around the world and for preparing consumers, agricultural producers, and others in the United States for changing conditions. This report, in response to the President's Climate Action Plan, integrates research from the biophysical and the social sciences, across multiple sectors, to evaluate climate-driven changes in global food security and analyze the U.S. role in food security in a changing world.

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