Artikel

Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate change scenarios and socio-economic pathways in 2050. The obtained results show a relatively optimistic outlook on yield, production and trade toward 2050. The outcomes of calorie availability suggest that China will be able to maintain a level of at least 3,000 kilocalories per day through 2010 to 2050. Overall, Chinese agriculture is relatively resilient to climate change. It is unlikely that Chinese food security by 2050 will be compromised in the context of climate change. The major challenge to food security, however, will rise from increasing demand coupled with regional disparities in adaptive capacity to climate change.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal ; ISSN: 1864-6042 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 2014-1 ; Pages: 1-39 ; Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
Thema
Climate change
food security
scenario
adaptation
mitigation
policy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ye, Liming
Tang, Huajun
Wu, Wenbin
Yang, Peng
Nelson, Gerald C.
Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
Palazzo, Amanda
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-1
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Ye, Liming
  • Tang, Huajun
  • Wu, Wenbin
  • Yang, Peng
  • Nelson, Gerald C.
  • Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
  • Palazzo, Amanda
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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