Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition

Samuel S. Myers; Matthew R. Smith; Sarah Guth; Christopher D. Golden; Bapu Vaitla; Nathaniel D. Mueller; Alan D. Dangour; Peter Huybers

doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031816-044356

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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition

Samuel S. Myers Matthew R. Smith Sarah Guth Christopher D. Golden

Bapu Vaitla Nathaniel D. Mueller

Alan D. Dangour

Peter Huybers

Annual Review of Public Health Vol. 38 No. 1 pp. 259-277 · Annual Reviews

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Abstract

Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion and intensification. Food systems, however, face continued increases in demand and growing environmental pressures. Most prominently, human-caused climate change will influence the quality and quantity of food we produce and our ability to distribute it equitably. Our capacity to ensure food security and nutritional adequacy in the face of rapidly changing biophysical conditions will be a major determinant of the next century's global burden of disease. In this article, we review the main pathways by which climate change may affect our food production systems—agriculture, fisheries, and livestock—as well as the socioeconomic forces that may influence equitable distribution.

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Published: Mar 20, 2017
Vol/Issue: 38(1)
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Authors

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Samuel S. Myers

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;, , ,; Harvard University Center for the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;

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Matthew R. Smith

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;, , ,

S

Sarah Guth

Harvard University Center for the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;

C

Christopher D. Golden

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;, , ,; Harvard University Center for the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;

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Bapu Vaitla

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;, , ,

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Nathaniel D. Mueller

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;,; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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Alan D. Dangour

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom;

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Peter Huybers

Harvard University Center for the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138;,

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Samuel S. Myers, Matthew R. Smith, Sarah Guth, et al. (2017). Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition. Annual Review of Public Health, 38(1), 259-277. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031816-044356

Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition

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