Food Security in a Changing Climate

Abstract

Climate impacts on agriculture strongly depend on regional and local circumstances. While positive and negative effects of climate change on global agriculture may on average almost compensate each other, the uneven spatial distribution is likely to harmfully affect food security in many regions. Food security could be severely threatened, if tipping points in the climate system are exceeded. Developing countries in the tropics will face the strongest direct climate impacts, while having the lowest level of adaptive capacity.