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Impacts of Potential Climate Change on Global and Regional Food Production and Vulnerability

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Climate Change and World Food Security

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Since the late 1950s, global agricultural output has increased on a scale unprecedented in human history. Much of the productivity increase is attributed to the development of high yielding crop varieties, intensive use of inorganic fertilisers and pesticides, irrigation expansion and capital intensive farm management. In the 1970s the euphoria surrounding the Green Revolution was questioned in the wake of the energy crisis and growing awareness of long-term environmental consequences. Soil erosion, ground water contamination, soil compaction and decline of natural soil fertility, and destruction of traditional social systems, led to a reappraisal of what were still considered to be the most advanced agricultural production techniques. Agricultural research has since expanded its scope to include sustainable and resource-efficient cropping systems and farm management practices.

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  1. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

    Güunther Fischer

  2. Institut für Agrarpolitik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitä, Germany

    Klaus Frohberg

  3. Department of Geography, University College, London, UK

    Martin L. Parry

  4. Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA

    Cynthia Rosenzweig

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    Thomas E. Downing

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Fischer, G., Frohberg, K., Parry, M.L., Rosenzweig, C. (1996). Impacts of Potential Climate Change on Global and Regional Food Production and Vulnerability. In: Downing, T.E. (eds) Climate Change and World Food Security. NATO ASI Series, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61086-8_5

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