Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation

Various | International Food Policy Research Institute | September 2009

Issues:Climate change, Competition over resources

This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify climate-change impacts, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being.

The analysis brings together, for the first time, detailed modeling of crop growth under climate change with insights from an extremely detailed global agriculture model, using two climate scenarios to simulate future climate. The results of the analysis suggest that agriculture and human well-being will be negatively affected by climate change.

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