Global environmental change (GEC) represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. As this book shows, at the same time, agriculture and related activities also contribute to GEC by, for example, intensifying greenhouse gas emissions and altering the land surface. Responses aimed at adapting to GEC may have negative consequences for food security, just as measures
Attributed to:
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy
funded by
ESRC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Food Security and Global Environmental Change (2010)
Page Reference: 87-114
ISBN: 9781849711272