Risk of Increased Food Insecurity under Stringent Global Climate Change Mitigation Policy. Hasegawa, T., Fujimori, S., Havĺık, P., Valin, H., Bodirsky, B. L., Doelman, J. C., Fellmann, T., Kyle, P., Koopman, J. F. L., Lotze-Campen, H., Mason-D'Croz, D., Ochi, Y., Pérez Doḿınguez, I., Stehfest, E., Sulser, T. B., Tabeau, A., Takahashi, K., Takakura, J., van Meijl, H., van Zeist, W., Wiebe, K., & Witzke, P. 8(8):699–703.
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Food insecurity can be directly exacerbated by climate change due to crop-production-related impacts of warmer and drier conditions that are expected in important agricultural regions1,2,3. However, efforts to mitigate climate change through comprehensive, economy-wide GHG emissions reductions may also negatively affect food security, due to indirect impacts on prices and supplies of key agricultural commodities4,5,6. Here we conduct a multiple model assessment on the combined effects of climate change and climate mitigation efforts on agricultural commodity prices, dietary energy availability and the population at risk of hunger. A robust finding is that by 2050, stringent climate mitigation policy, if implemented evenly across all sectors and regions, would have a greater negative impact on global hunger and food consumption than the direct impacts of climate change. The negative impacts would be most prevalent in vulnerable, low-income regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where food security problems are already acute.
@article{hasegawaRiskIncreasedFood2018,
  title = {Risk of Increased Food Insecurity under Stringent Global Climate Change Mitigation Policy},
  author = {Hasegawa, Tomoko and Fujimori, Shinichiro and Havĺık, Petr and Valin, Hugo and Bodirsky, Benjamin L. and Doelman, Jonathan C. and Fellmann, Thomas and Kyle, Page and Koopman, Jason F. L. and Lotze-Campen, Hermann and Mason-D'Croz, Daniel and Ochi, Yuki and Pérez Doḿınguez, Ignacio and Stehfest, Elke and Sulser, Timothy B. and Tabeau, Andrzej and Takahashi, Kiyoshi and Takakura, Jun'ya and van Meijl, Hans and van Zeist, Willem-Jan and Wiebe, Keith and Witzke, Peter},
  date = {2018-07},
  journaltitle = {Nature Climate Change},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {699--703},
  issn = {1758-678X},
  doi = {10.1038/s41558-018-0230-x},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0230-x},
  abstract = {Food insecurity can be directly exacerbated by climate change due to crop-production-related impacts of warmer and drier conditions that are expected in important agricultural regions1,2,3. However, efforts to mitigate climate change through comprehensive, economy-wide GHG emissions reductions may also negatively affect food security, due to indirect impacts on prices and supplies of key agricultural commodities4,5,6. Here we conduct a multiple model assessment on the combined effects of climate change and climate mitigation efforts on agricultural commodity prices, dietary energy availability and the population at risk of hunger. A robust finding is that by 2050, stringent climate mitigation policy, if implemented evenly across all sectors and regions, would have a greater negative impact on global hunger and food consumption than the direct impacts of climate change. The negative impacts would be most prevalent in vulnerable, low-income regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where food security problems are already acute.},
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  number = {8},
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