CLIMATE-CHANGE AND WORLD FOOD SECURITY

What is known about the implications of climate change for world food security? This special issue draws on material presented at a recent international workshop at the University of Oxford. It focuses especially on the distributional impacts of a changing climate and the different levels and sources of vulnerability to environmental change. It reviews recent results from two international agricultural models and examines the potential impacts on agriculture of measures to prevent climate change. A companion special issue of the journal Food Policy addresses the regional and global context of future food security in relationship to a changing environment.