Climate Impact on Production

Climate change impacts on crop yields will be negative from the 2030s onwards. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Challinor AJ, Watson J, Lobell DB, Howden SM, Smith DR, Chhetri N. 2014. A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation. Nature Climate Change 4: 287 – 291.

250M people will face a 5% decrease in growing season in next 40 years. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Church JA, P.U. Clark, A. Cazenave, J.M. Gregory, S. Jevrejeva, A. Levermann, M.A. Merrifield, G.A. Milne, R.S. Nerem, P.D. Nunn, A.J. Payne, W.T. Pfeffer, D. Stammer and A.S. Unnikrishnan, 2013: Sea Level Change. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. Available from: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/.

INFOGRAPHICS: impact of climate change on production #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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John W. Williams, Stephen T. Jackson, and John E. Kutzbach. 2007. Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (14) 5738-5742. (Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606292104)

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Asseng S, Ewert F, Rosenzweig C, Jones JW, Hatfield JL, Ruane AC, Boote KJ, Thorburn PJ, Rötter RP, Cammarano D, Brisson N, Basso B, Martre P, Aggarwal PK, Angulo C, Bertuzzi P, Biernath C, Challinor AJ, Doltra J, Gayler S, Goldberg R, Grant R, Heng L, Hooker J, Hunt LA, Ingwersen J, Izaurralde RC, Kersebaum KC, Müller C, Naresh Kumar S, Nendel C, O’Leary G, Olesen JE, Osborne TM, Palosuo T, Priesack E, Ripoche D, Semenov MA, Shcherbak I, Steduto P, Stöckle C, Stratonovitch P, Streck T, Supit I, Tao F, Travasso M, Waha K, Wallach D, White JW, Williams JR and Wolf J. 2013. Uncertainty in simulating wheat yields under climate change, Nature Climate Change, Vol. 3, pp. 827-832, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1916. (Available from: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n9/full/nclimate1916.html.)

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Cheung, W.W.L., Lam, V.W.Y., Sarmiento, J.L., Kearney, K., Watson, R., Zeller, D., and Pauly, D. 2010. Large-scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change. Current Change Biology 16: 24-35. Online at: http://www.seaaroundus.org/researcher/dpauly/PDF/2010/JournalArticles/LargeScaleRedistributionOfMaximumFisheriesCatchPotential.pdf.

INFOGRAPHICS: impact of climate change on people #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Thornton, P., Van de Steeg, J., Notenbaert, M.H., and Herrero, M. 2009. The impacts of climate change on livestock and livestock systems in developing countries: A review of what we know and what we need to know. Agricultural Systems 101: 113-127. (Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2009.05.002)

Jones PG, Thornton PK. 2009. Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change. Environmental Science & Policy 12(4):427–437. (Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2008.08.006)