Vulnerability mapping
An assessment of vulnerability of food security to climate change across the global tropics is needed to not only help CCAFS identify future areas of research, but to identify the "hotspots" or locations where climate change impacts are projected to become increasingly severe by 2050. The vulnerability maps are also required to identify where food insecurity is likely to become greater by 2050. Multi-scale vulnerability maps will be developed to demonstrate current exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of agricultural and fishing populations in relation to food security to 2030 and 2050. They will help identify who is vulnerable and why, what are existing practices, and how vulnerability and food security may change in the future in relation to multiple stressors, including climate change. These maps will be useful in engaging with policymakers at different levels and to further national and regional agricultural development strategies.
Scope/Location
The Global Tropics
Partners
The research is led by Polly Ericksen, from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
Publications
CCAFS Report No. 5
Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics
by Polly Ericksen, Philip Thornton, An Notenbaert, Laura Cramer, Peter Jones, Mario Herrero.