Climate Change and Agriculture : Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation / Anita Wreford, Dominic Moran and Neil Adger.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Wreford, Anita.

Contributor:

Moran, Dominic.

Adger, W. Neil.

SourceOECD (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and Food.

Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages)

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Climate change is likely to have significant impacts on the agricultural sector to which farmers will have to adapt. While agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, it is also a source of carbon storage in soils. This report examines the economic and policy issues related to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and adaptation responses and to the mitigation of greenhouse gases from agriculture. It outlines research undertaken and underway in other national and international research agencies. It also highlights some of the knowledge gaps on the impacts of climate change on food production and the uncertainties of those impacts in a global context that warrant further research efforts. In particular, the report analyses marginal abatement cost curves, which show the relative costs of achieving reductions in greenhouse gas emission through the implementation of different actions in the agricultural sector. The aim of the report is to help guide policy makers in the design of policies to address climate change issues in agriculture.

Contents:

Adaptation

Impacts and sensitivities in agriculture

Mitigation

Introduction

Climate change projections

Foreword

Executive Summary

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

Annex A

Bibliography

Relevant climate research in other agencies

Future research needs

Integrating mitigation and adaptation.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264086876

Access Restriction:

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