Global food security under climate change

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 104; no. 50; pp. 19703 - 19708
• Main Authors: Schmidhuber, Josef, Tubiello, Francesco N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 11.12.2007; National Acad Sciences
• Series: Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature
• Subjects: Agricultural organizations; Agriculture; Agroecology; Biological Sciences; Climate; Climate change; Climate Change and Food Security Special Feature; crop production; Economic development; Environmental impact; Food access; food availability; Food crops; Food security; Food Supply; Forecasting; global food security; Greenhouse Effect; Humans; Hunger; Impact analysis; literature reviews; Malnutrition

This article reviews the potential impacts of climate change on food security. It is found that of the four main elements of food security, i.e., availability, stability, utilization, and access, only the first is routinely addressed in simulation studies. To this end, published results indicate tha...