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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
CSD-17 Side-Event 6 May 2009
Thomas Rosswall, Chair CCCP
The Challenge
• Climate change will worsen the living conditions
of farmers, fishers and forest-dependent people
who are already vulnerable and food insecure.
• Hunger and malnutrition will increase.
• Rural communities ... face an immediate and
ever-growing risk of increased crop failure (and)
loss of livestock ...
• Poor people will be at risk of food insecurity ...
FAO 2009
Global
TOMORROW
Business
As Usual
D4GΔ
Global
Change
Development
for Global
Change
Siloed
Integrated
Business
As Usual
CGIAR
Development
Research
Local
Adapted from Sara
Farley, The World Bank
6 May 2009
CSD-17 ICSU-CGIAR-ESSP-IFAP Side Event
Tipping points
Per Olsson, SRC, 2009
Programme
• Jim Hansen (Columbia University): Managing
Current Risks and Preparing for Progressive
Change
• Lindiwe Sibanda (FANRPAN): The Africa
Climate Solution: Carbon Sinks and Pools
• Jerry Nelson (IFPRI): Climate Change,
Agriculture and Policy: Who Bears the Costs?
• Sarala Gopalan (IFAP): Farmers’ Solutions to
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
• Discussion