<p><P>Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threate
Climate Change and Food Security: Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
β Scribed by David Lobell, Marshall Burke (auth.), David Lobell, Marshall Burke (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 201
- Series
- Advances in Global Change Research 37
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Subjects
Climate Change; Agriculture; Earth Sciences, general; Sustainable Development
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