Climate Change

The Changing Climate for Food and Agriculture: A Literature Review

An annotated list of recent articles and studies related to climate change, agriculture and trade.

Food, Water and Climate Challenges

It is time for us to get serious about understanding the way climate change affects water resources for food production and conversely the way agricultural water use is leading to climate change.

The U.S. Nears the Limits of Its Water Supplies

The Emerging Water Crisis in the U.S.

In the U.S. we are experiencing areas with too much water or outright drought. Each crisis gives us yet another opportunity to examine and challenge the issues we need to find solutions for: unfettered development, water intensive energy production, inefficient agricultural water use.

Alternatives to Genetic Modification in Solving Water Scarcity

The theme of the 14th email conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Biotechnology Forum, which took place between March 5 and April 1, 2007, was "Coping with water scarcity in developing countries: What role for agricultural biotechnologies?". The electronic forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture was held on March 29, 2007.

As Minnesota Grows Warmer

If warming continues in Minnesota no industry sector will be affected more by climate change than farming. With drier weather corn and soybeans would be heavily reliant on irrigation and dry land crops might become more common. Intensive animal production will be less viable, right along with ethanol plants and other huge investments made to take advantage of our current climate advantages.

Trade, Ag, and Climate Change

This assessment exposes the ways that current agricultural trade policies contribute to rising greenhouse gas emissions by substantially increasing the energy intensity of food production, processing, packaging and distribution systems.