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Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019: Highlights

The goal of this collaborative work is to build consensus on how global agriculture may evolve in the coming decade and the key issues impacting its course.

Published in 2010, by OECD, FAO

Climate Change and Food Security: A Framework Document

Until recently, most assessments of the impact of climate change on the food and agriculture sector have focused on the implications for production and global supply of food, with less consideration of other components of the food chain. This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on...

Published in 2008, by FAO Interdepartamental Working Group on Climate Change

Climate Change. Impact on agriculture and cost adaptation

This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify the climate-change impacts on agriculture, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being.

Published in 2009, by IFPRI

Double Pyramide: healthy food for people, sustainable food for the planet

"The double pyramide" positions foods not only following the criteria nutritional science has long recommended on the basis of their positive impact on health, but also in terms of their impact on the environment. The work aims to encourage the publication of further studies on the measurement of environmental impacts of food. The objective is to increase...

Published in 2010, by Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition

Getting fossil fuels off the plate

This publication is an excerpted chapter from The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises that features essays by some of the world’s most provocative thinkers on the key issues shaping our new century, from renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience.

Published in 2010, by Michael Bomford

Golden Rice's Lack of lustre

Addressing vitamin A deficiency without genetic engineering.

Published in 2010, by Greenpeace

Nutrition and environment

A stand alone brief on nutrition and environment designed to facilitate dialogue between nutrition and other development professionals.

Published in 2002, by Timothy Johns, Pablo B. Eyzaguirre

SCN News No 20 - Nutrition and Agriculture

This issue of SCN News deals with nutrition and agriculture.

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 25 - School-age Children: Their Health and Nutrition

This issue of SCN News features a comprehensive review of the nutrition and health status of school-age children, an initiative of the SCN Working Group on Nutrition of the School-Age Child chaired very ably during 2000-2002 by Don Bundy of the World Bank. For many decades a neglected age group, the nutritional well being of children six to 18 years reflects...

Published in 2002, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 38: Climate Change: food and nutrition security implications

This edition of the SCN News is rightfully dedicated to climate change and its implications on food and nutrition. It is hoped to be thought provoking, showing you how climate change impacts on nutrition. The topic has been approached from very different angles: impacts on food security (in general, in the Asia-Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa),...

Published in 2010, by SCN

The environmental food crisis – The environment’s role in averting future food crises

A new rapid response assessment report released by UNEP warns that up to 25% of the world's food production may become lost due to environmental breakdown by 2050 unless action is taken. The report provides the first summary by the UN of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and life...

Published in 2009, by Christian Nellemann, Monika MacDevette, Ton Manders, Bas Eickhout, Birger Svihus, Anne Gerdien Prins, Bjørn P. Kaltenborn

The Green Revolution at the End of the Twentieth Century

Synthesis of the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment's (SPIA) study of the impacts of CGIAR germplasm improvement research prepared by Robert Evenson and Douglas Gollin, and presented at the 2001 Mid Term Meeting by SPIA Chair Hans Gregersen. The study documented the development and diffusion of over 8,000 modern varieties in eleven major crops between...

Published in 2001, by R.E. Evenson, Douglas Gollin