Climate Change Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System

2015 assessment

Authors

• Molly Brown University of Maryland, College Park
• John M. Antle Oregon State University
• Peter Backlund Colorado State University
• Edward R. Carr Clark University
• William Easterling The Pennsylvania State University
• Margaret Walsh United States Department of Agriculture Climate Change Program Office
• Caspar Ammann National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Witsanu Attavanich Kasetsart University
• Chris Barrett Cornell University
• Marc Bellemare University of Minnesota
• Violet Dancheck U.S. Agency for International Development
• Christopher C. Funk U.S. Geological Survey
• Kathryn Grace The University of Utah
• John S.I. Ingram University of Oxford
• Hui Jiang U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service
• Hector Maletta Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Tawny Mata U.S. Department of Agriculture , American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Anthony Murray U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service
• Moffatt Ngugi U.S. Agency for International Development , U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service
• Dennis Ojima Colorado State University
• Brian C. O'Neill National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Claudia Tebaldi National Center for Atmospheric Research

Funding Agency

• National Science Foundation

Distributor

• U.S. Department of Agriculture

Points of Contact

• Subcommittee on Global Change Research
• U.S. Global Change Research Program

Contributing Agencies

• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• National Center for Atmospheric Research

This report was prepared as part of the United States National Climate Assessment and part of the President's Climate Action Plan (PCAP). USDA led the production of the report on behalf of the thirteen Federal Agencies of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Thirty-one authors and contributors-- representing nineteen federal, academic, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental institutions in four countries-- prepared the report.. In response to the PCAP, this report integrates research from the biophysical and the social sciences across multiple sectors in order to evaluate climate-driven changes in global food security and analyze the U.S. role in food security in a changing world.

This report has 9 chapters, 38 figures , 0 findings, 6 tables and 0 references

http://www.usda.gov/oce/climate_change/FoodSecurity2015Assessment/FullAssessment.pdf

DOI : 10.7930/J0862DC7

Cited by chapter 9,chapter 7, and usgcrp-climate-human-health-assessment-2016. (reference: af26d1a8)