Climate Prediction and Agriculture Advances and Challenges
Improved adaptation of food production, particularly in areas where climate variability is large, holds the key to improving food security for human populations. Increasing climate knowledge and improved prediction capabilities facilitate the development
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Mannava V. K. Sivakumar · James Hansen (Eds.)
Climate Prediction and Agriculture Advances and Challenges
With 102 Figures and 55 Tables
World Meteorological Organization
Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training The International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Editors Dr. Mannava V. K. Sivakumar Agricultural Meteorology Division World Meteorological Organization 7bis, Avenue de la Paix 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
Dr. James Hansen Agricultural Systems International Research Institute for Climate and Society The Earth Institute at Columbia University 121 Monell Bldg., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory PO Box 1000/61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA
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3-540-44649-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-44649-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Foreword
It is estimated that hunger is currently affecting one out of every seven people on planet Earth. Projections show that unless the world community is prepared to undertake intensive and sustained remedial action over a long-term, there could still be almost 700 million people chronically undernourished by the year 2010, with over 300 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Agriculture and its associated industries are primary sources of food and a major employment sector in most developing countries. Climate change, and increasing climate variability, as well as other global environmental issues such as land degradation, loss of biological diversity and stratospheric ozone depletion, threaten our ability to meet the basic human needs in adequate food, water and energy, safe shelter and a healthy environment. To address these challenges, it is important to integrate the issues of climate variability and climate change into resource use and development decisions. Decreasing the vulnerability of agriculture to natural climate
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