Integrating pests and pathogens into the climate change/food security debate
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...The potential influence of pests and diseases is commonly beyond the scope of such studies (Gregory et al., 2009)....
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...This may be through impacts of warming or drought on the resistance of crops to specific diseases and through the increased pathogenicity of organisms by mutation induced by environmental stress (Gregory et al. 2009)....
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...Estimates of the CO2 fertilization effect vary depending on which experimental approach is used (Long et al., 2006; Tubiello et al., 2007a; Ziska and Bunce, 2007; Ainsworth et al., 2008), but current estimates for increases in crop yield are 10–20% for C3 crops and 0–10% for C4 crops (Ainsworth and…...
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...Ingram et al. (2008) outlined three major challenges for agronomic research in the climate/food security debate: (i) to understand better how climate change will affect cropping systems (as opposed to crop productivity); (ii) to assess technical and policy options for reducing the deleterious…...
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...The last 40–50 years have seen major changes to agricultural systems worldwide that have contributed to, and interacted with, new food systems. Von Braun (2007) highlighted the transforming role of the interacting driving forces of population increase, income growth, urbanization, and globalization on food production, markets, and consumption....
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...Few studies addressing the impacts of climate change on crop yield have incorporated the effects of crop pests. For example, when reviewing how elevated [CO2] might affect crop yields, Ziska and Bunce (2007) listed only two papers that considered how insect pests might modify the predictions....
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...Hulme et al. (2001) suggest that precipitation patterns in Southern Africa are likely to decrease in December–February, but increase in June–August when this will most benefit S....
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...Hulme et al. (2001) suggest that precipitation patterns in Southern Africa are likely to decrease in December–February, but increase in June–August when this will most benefit S. gregaria and lead to further problems....
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...While such approaches are open to criticism because climate alone does not determine distribution and species interactions are ignored (Davis et al., 1998), climatic mapping provides a pragmatic means of investigating the potential for exotic pests and pathogens to establish in new areas (Baker et…...
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...species interactions are ignored (Davis et al., 1998), climatic mapping provides a pragmatic means of investigating the potential for exotic pests and pathogens to establish in new areas (Baker et al....
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...…only with food availability (production, distribution, and exchange) but also with access to, and utilization of, food so that studies which focus only on agricultural production only provide a partial assessment of food security/climate change relationships (Gregory et al., 2005; Ericksen, 2008)....
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...It is well known that the sensitivity of agricultural systems to climate differs between systems depending on whether they are temperature- or water-limited, and whether they are operating near their optimum or not....
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...Food security (defined as when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life, FAO) is concerned not only with food availability (production, distribution, and exchange) but also with access to, and utilization of, food so that studies which focus only on agricultural production only provide a partial assessment of food security/climate change relationships (Gregory et al., 2005; Ericksen, 2008)....
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...…only with food availability (production, distribution, and exchange) but also with access to, and utilization of, food so that studies which focus only on agricultural production only provide a partial assessment of food security/climate change relationships (Gregory et al., 2005; Ericksen, 2008)....
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...Gregory et al. (2005) demonstrated that climate variation is only one of several interacting factors that affect food security....
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