Cynthia Rosenzweig and Ana Iglesias

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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on World Food Supply

Data Sets from a Major Crop Modeling Study

by Cynthia Rosenzweig and Ana Iglesias

In the coming decades the agricultural sector faces many challenges stemming from growing global populations, land degradation, and loss of cropland to urbanization. Although food production has been able to keep pace with population growth on the global scale, there are serious regional deficits, and poverty related nutritional deficiencies affect close to a billion people globally. In this century climate change is one factor that could affect food production and availability in many parts of the world, particularly those most prone to drought and famine.

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Taken from CEDAC.