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Adapting to climate change to sustain food security
Author(s) -
Ziervogel Gina,
Ericksen Polly J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.678
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1757-7799
pISSN - 1757-7780
DOI - 10.1002/wcc.56
Subject(s) - food security , vulnerability (computing) , climate change , adaptation (eye) , food systems , psychological intervention , political economy of climate change , natural resource economics , food processing , business , environmental resource management , agriculture , environmental planning , political science , economics , environmental science , geography , computer security , computer science , ecology , psychology , archaeology , neuroscience , psychiatry , law , biology
Climate change poses considerable challenges to food security. Adapting food systems both to enhance food security for the poor and vulnerable and to prevent future negative impacts from climate change will require attention to more than just agricultural production. This article surveys the multiple components of food security, particularly those relating to access and utilization, which are threatened by the complex responses of food systems to the impacts of climate change. Food security can only be ensured and enhanced with a suite of interventions across activities, ranging from production to distribution and allocation. Although many studies have demonstrated the importance of policy and institutional interventions for ensuring food security after a shock, the climate change impacts and adaptation community have been slow to pick up on these lessons. This article pulls together lessons from the literature on the type of institutional interventions that could be strengthened to enable adaptation in the food system to buffer against climate change at multiple levels, from the local to the global level. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation