Climate change and global food systems: potential impacts on food security and undernutrition

SS Myers, MR Smith, S Guth, CD Golden… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several
decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion …

Estimating the economic impacts of climate change using weather observations

CD Kolstad, FC Moore - Review of Environmental …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article reviews methods that use historical data on weather, climate, economic activity,
and other variables to statistically measure the effect of climate on economic outcomes. This …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change has likely already affected global food production

DK Ray, PC West, M Clark, JS Gerber, AV Prishchepov… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Crop yields are projected to decrease under future climate conditions, and recent research
suggests that yields have already been impacted. However, current impacts on a diversity of …

The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields

E Vogel, MG Donat, LV Alexander… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate extremes, such as droughts or heat waves, can lead to harvest failures and threaten
the livelihoods of agricultural producers and the food security of communities worldwide …

Quantifying economic damages from climate change

M Auffhammer - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Climate scientists have spent billions of dollars and eons of supercomputer time studying
how increased concentrations of greenhouse gases and changes in the reflectivity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Climate adaptation by crop migration

LL Sloat, SJ Davis, JS Gerber, FC Moore… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many studies have estimated the adverse effects of climate change on crop yields, however,
this literature almost universally assumes a constant geographic distribution of crops in the …

Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks

M Tigchelaar, DS Battisti… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Meeting the global food demand of roughly 10 billion people by the middle of the 21st
century will become increasingly challenging as the Earth's climate continues to warm …

[HTML][HTML] Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models

M Turco, JJ Rosa-Cánovas, J Bedia, S Jerez… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The observed trend towards warmer and drier conditions in southern Europe is projected to
continue in the next decades, possibly leading to increased risk of large fires. However, an …

[HTML][HTML] Climate variation explains a third of global crop yield variability

DK Ray, JS Gerber, GK MacDonald, PC West - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Many studies have examined the role of mean climate change in agriculture, but an
understanding of the influence of inter-annual climate variations on crop yields in different …

Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits

T Carleton, A Jina, M Delgado… - … Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature
relationships and extrapolate them to countries without data today and into a future with …