GC54A:
Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture III


Session ID#: 10355

Session Description:
As growing population, increasing food consumption, and enhanced biofuel use generate rising demands for food and water resources, changes in global and regional climate are impacting local weather, altering the frequencies of heat waves, dry spells and precipitation events. These global and regional changes will affect food and fresh water security. This session will focus on observed and potential projected changes in 21st water resources and agriculture. We encourage submissions on: (i) research exploring how climate has and will influence food supplies, prices, stability and availability and food security, (ii) the implications of warming air temperatures for agriculture and water resources, (iii) research linking hydroclimatic anomalies and food security outcomes (vulnerability, malnutrition, etc.), (iv) analyses exploring water and food security in semi-arid and arid locales and (v) the exploration and/or attribution of climate change in recent hydroclimatic extreme events.
Primary Convener:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States; USGS, Sioux Falls, United States
Conveners:  Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India and Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Chairs:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Lawrence Buja, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate Change and Global Food Security: Food Access, Utilization, and the US Food System (Invited) (60900)
Molly Elizabeth Brown1, John M Antle2, Peter William Backlund3, Edward R. Carr4, William E Easterling5, Margaret Walsh6, Caspar M. Ammann7, Witsanu Attavanich8, Christopher B Barrett9, Marc F Bellemare10, Violet Dancheck11, Christopher Funk12, Kathryn Grace13, John S.I. Ingram10, Hui Jiang14, Hector Maletta15, Tawny Mata16, Anthony Murray17, Moffat Ngugi11, Dennis S Ojima18, Brian C O'Neill19 and Claudia Tebaldi20, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Applied Economics, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Clark University, Department of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (6)US Department of Agriculture, Climate Change Program Office, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Kasetsart University, Department of Economics, Bangkok, Thailand, (9)Cornell University, Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, NY, United States, (10)Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (11)US Agency for International Development, Falls Church, VA, United States, (12)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (13)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, MN, United States, (14)USDA, Foreign Agriculture Service, Washington, DC, United States, (15)Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru, (16)USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (17)USDA Washington DC, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC, United States, (18)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (19)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Climate Change And Hydrologic Instability In Yemen (Invited) (60944)
Colin P Kelley, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Amy McNally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Life Cycles of Agriculturally-Relevant ENSO Teleconnections in North and South America (70254)
Weston B Anderson, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, United States, Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Walter Baethgen, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Mark A Cane, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Comparative assessment of lowland and highland Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate variability in Ethiopia (58466)
Desalegn Yayeh Ayal Sr, Muluneh Woldetisadik MW Abshare, Solomon DS Desta and Walter Leal Filho, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Crop Production Risk in the Pampas: A Bayesian Weather Generator for Climate Change and Land Use Impact Studies (62560)
Andrew Verdin1, Balaji Rajagopalan1, William Kleiber2, Guillermo P Podesta3 and Federico Bert4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Miami / RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Facultdad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Impacts of climate change on corn yield and the length of corn growing season in U.S. Corn Belt (86502)
Dev Niyogi1, Xing Liu1, Eugene S Takle2, Christopher Anderson2, Jeff Andresen3, Gopal Alagarswamy4, Benjamin M. Gramig1 and Otto Doering1, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
Smallholder Food and Water Security in the Face of Climatic Stress and the Coffee Leaf Rust: Lessons from Nicaragua  (77066)
Iris T Stewart1, Christopher M Bacon2 and William Sundstrom2, (1)Santa Clara University, Department of Environmental Studies & Sciences, Santa Clara, United States, (2)Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States

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