Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production : Impacts Vulnerabilities and Remedies

Contents: Preface. 1. Climate change and green house gas emissions from agriculture, livestock and fisheries. 2. Climate change impacts on agriculture, livestock and fisheries. 3. Climate change impacts on food contamination and food safety. 4. Climate change impacts on food security. 5. Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in agriculture livestock and fisheries. Index. 

The book Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: impacts, vulnerabilities and remedies is an attempt to address the important facts and figures relating to climate change impacts on agricultural food production based on: a climate change impacts on various food production sectors, namely agriculture, livestock and fisheries, b. food contamination, food safety and food security issues related to climate changes, c. adaptation and mitigation measures to counteract or minimise or reduce the effects of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fisheries and d. the green house gas GHG emissions from agriculture livestock and fisheries sectors. Climate change is projected to have an effect on:

With higher temperature and overall decreased water supplies, beef cattle and sheep are likely to experience increased incidences of stress related deaths: the other climate change related effects on livestock are reduction in animal weight, reproduction rates and milk yields.

Climate change has both direct and indirect impacts on fish stocks that are exploited commercially. Rise in sea temperature have already caused in shifts in distribution of marine fish towards both north and south poles e.g. cod common sole, sardines, anchovies have moved towards north pole and some fish species also found moving to deeper areas with warming.

Climate change will affect all four dimensions of food security food availability access to food stability of food supplies and food utilization.

All quantitative assessments show that climate change will adversely affect food security in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

The adaptation can be considered as tackling the effects of climate change, whereas mitigation is tackling the cause of climate change such as reducing the sources or enhancing the sinks of GHGs.