Threat to future global food security from climate change and ozone air pollution

By A. Tai, Maria Val Martin, C. Heald. 2014

569 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This study shows that climate change has the potential to substantially increase undernourishment rates and threaten food security in developing countries through crop damage, but that ozone regulation can significantly offset climate impacts, depending on the scenario. The findings should help policymakers devise optimal strategies for food production under global climate change.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Senthold Asseng
2. David B. Lobell
3. D. J. Jacob

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Senthold Asseng
2. David B. Lobell
3. Thomas W. Hertel
4. R. A. Fischer
5. Andrew Crane-Droesch
6. Marshall Burke
7. W. Schlenker
8. Uris Lantz C. Baldos

In Plant Science

1. Senthold Asseng
2. Kenneth L. McNally
3. David B. Lobell
4. Ramil Mauleon
5. R. A. Fischer
6. Andrew Crane-Droesch
7. X. Ju
8. P. Christie

Citations in the corpus

• Anthropogenic drivers of 2013–2017 trends in summer surface ozone in China (2018, background): “O in surface air is a major air pollutant harmful to human health (1) and to terrestrial vegetation (2, 3).”
• Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe (2021, background): “Being the EU a major player in the global food market, and a world leader in the fight against climate change (Tai et al 2014, Bas-Defossez et al 2018, Berkhout et al 2018, Ciscar 2018), the way it addresses the challenges of agriculture has implications at the global level.”
• SNP-Seek database of SNPs derived from 3000 rice genomes (2014, background): “The observed trends in climate change and air pollution create even bigger threats to the global food supply (2).”
• Comparing estimates of climate change impacts from process-based and statistical crop models (2017, background): “Tai et al (2014) use a similar approach to evaluate alternative future emission scenarios, finding large potential impacts of O3 on future production depending on emission scenarios.”