Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition

Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition

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EAN: 9789400701090
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Climate changes will affect food production in a number of ways. Crop yields, aquatic populations and forest productivity will decline, invasive insect and plant species will proliferate and desertification, soil salinization and water stress will increase. Each of these impacts will decrease food and nutrition security, primarily by reducing access to and availability of food, and also by increasing the risk of infectious disease.

Although increased biofuel demand has the potential to increase incomes among producers, it can also negatively affect food and nutrition security. Land used for cultivating food crops may be diverted to biofuel production, creating food shortages and raising prices. Accelerations in unregulated or poorly regulated foreign direct investment, deforestation and unsustainable use of chemical fertilizers may also result. Biofuel production may reduce women’s control of resources, which may in turn reduce the quality of household diets. Each of these effects increases risk of poor food and nutrition security, either through decreased physical availability of food, decreased purchasing power, or increased risk of disease.

The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition articulates the links between current environmental issues and food and nutrition security. It provides a unique collection of nutrition statistics, climate change projections, biofuel scenarios and food security information under one cover which will be of interest to policymakers, academia, agronomists, food and nutrition security planners, programme implementers, health workers and all those concerned about the current challenges of climate change, energy production, hunger and malnutrition.

EAN 9789400701090
ISBN 9400701098
Typ produktu Pevná väzba
Vydavateľ Springer
Dátum vydania 1. marca 2012
Stránky 120
Jazyk English
Rozmery 235 x 155
Krajina Netherlands
Čitatelia Professional & Scholarly
Ilustrácie XVI, 120 p.
Editori Cohen, Marc J; Thompson, Brian
Edícia 2012