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display_name: "Chapter 8: Global Food Security, Climate Change, and the United States (in 'Climate Change Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System')"
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figures:
  - display_name: '8.35: Projections of U.S. surface temperatures'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/projections-us-surface-temperatures.yaml
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  - display_name: '8.36: Projections of changes in U.S. precipitation'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/projections-changes-us-precipitation.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/projections-changes-us-precipitation
  - display_name: '8.37: Global agricultural yield and productivity growth rates, 1961 to 2007'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/global-agricultural-yield-productivity-growth-rates-1961-2007.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/global-agricultural-yield-productivity-growth-rates-1961-2007
  - display_name: '8.38: Annual growth rate of U.S. public agricultural R&D spending, 1950 to 2007'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/annual-growth-rate-us-public-agricultural-rd-spending-1950-2007.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/figure/annual-growth-rate-us-public-agricultural-rd-spending-1950-2007
files: []
findings: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states.yaml
identifier: global-food-security-climate-change-united-states
number: 8
report_identifier: usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015
tables:
  - display_name: '8.3: U.S. Agricultural Imports and Exports (AgMIP Projections)'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/us-agricultural-imports-exports-agmip-projections.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/us-agricultural-imports-exports-agmip-projections
  - display_name: '8.4: Change in U.S. Agricultural Imports and Exports Relative to Constant 2005 Climate'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/change-us-agricultural-imports-exports-relative-constant-2005-climate.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/change-us-agricultural-imports-exports-relative-constant-2005-climate
  - display_name: '8.5: Top 15 Countries for U.S. Agricultural Exports'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/top-15-countries-us-agricultural-exports.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/top-15-countries-us-agricultural-exports
  - display_name: '8.6: Top 20 Port Cities with Severe Potential Impacts from Sea-level Rise and Tropical Storms'
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/top-20-port-cities-severe-potential-impacts-sea-level-rise-tropical-storms.yaml
    uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states/table/top-20-port-cities-severe-potential-impacts-sea-level-rise-tropical-storms
title: 'Global Food Security, Climate Change, and the United States'
uri: /report/usda-climate-change-global-food-security-us-food-system-2015/chapter/global-food-security-climate-change-united-states
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