Big Facts on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

Sub-Saharan Africa

One in four people in sub-Saharan Africa is undernourished #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013. The state of food insecurity in the world 2013: The multiple dimensions of food security. Rome: FAO. (Available from http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/)

Sub-Saharan African pop. set to double by 2050 & triple by 2100 #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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[UN-DESA] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2013. World Population prospects, the 2012 revision, highlights and advance tables. Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. New York. (Available from http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf)

Cereals, roots and tubers supply 80% of a person's daily calories in sub-Saharan African via @cgiarclimate

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Alexandratos N, Bruinsma J. 2012. World agriculture towards 2030/2050: the 2012 revision. ESA Working Paper 12-03. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). (Available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap106e/ap106e.pdf)

In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of food waste occurs in initial stages of food supply chain via @cgiarclimate

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[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013b. Food wastage footprint. Impacts on natural resources. Summary Report. Rome, Italy: FAO (Available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf).

See how climate change increases risk of floods & droughts in sub-Saharan Africa. #BigFacts @cgiarclimate

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Handmer, J., Y. Honda, Z.W. Kundzewicz, N. Arnell, G. Benito, J. Hatfield, I.F. Mohamed, P. Peduzzi, S. Wu, B. Sherstyukov, K. Takahashi, and Z. Yan, 2012: Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, pp. 231-290. (Available from https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srex/SREX_Full_Report.pdf)

As climate changes in sub-Saharan Africa, beans will suffer & cassava will thrive #BigFacts @cgiarclimate

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Shyam Singh Yadav, Robert Redden, Jerry L. Hatfield, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Anthony J. W. Hall (eds.). 2011. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change. Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Slowing large-scale deforestation in Africa would help reduce emissions. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Smith, P., D. Martino, Z. Cai, D. Gwary, H. Janzen, P. Kumar, B. McCarl, S. Ogle, F. O’Mara, C. Rice, B. Scholes, O. Sirotenko. 2007: Agriculture. In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. (Available from http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-chapter8.pdf)

90% of African agriculture depends on rain; small-scale irrigation is key! #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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IWMI. 2010. Water Storage in an Era of Climate Change: Addressing the Challenge of Increasing Rainfall Variability. IWMI Blue Paper. Available online at: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Blue_Papers/PDF/Blue_Paper_2010-final.pdf.