GC54A-01
Climate Change and Global Food Security: Food Access, Utilization, and the US Food System
Friday, 18 December 2015: 16:00
3001 (Moscone West)
Molly Elizabeth Brown1, John Michael Antle2, Peter 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, 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, UT, 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
Abstract:
This paper will summarize results from the USDA report entitled ‘Climate change, Global Food Security and the U.S. Food system’. The report focuses on the impact of climate change on global food security, defined as “when all people at all times have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. The assessment brought together authors and contributors from twenty federal, academic, nongovernmental, intergovernmental, and private organizations in four countries to identify climate change effects on food security through 2100, and analyze the U.S.’s likely connections with that world. This talk will describe how climate change will likely affect food access and food utilization, and summarize how the U.S. food system contributes to global food security, and will be affected by climate change.
