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Food value chains: Increasing productivity, sustainability, and resilience to climate change

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Title Food value chains: Increasing productivity, sustainability, and resilience to climate change
 
Creator Brauw, Alan de
Pacillo, Grazia
 
Subject climate change
food systems
nutrition
food security
mitigation
trade
value chains
sustainability
agricultural productivity
resilience
agricultural value chains
sistemas alimentarios
cambio climático
cadenas de valor
 
Description Climate change will drive responses and adaptations throughout agrifood systems. Changes in growing conditions for many crops will alter agricultural production patterns. Along with these shifts in crop production, rising temperatures, changes in humidity levels, and increased extreme weather will also affect the value chains through which agricultural products are traded, aggregated, processed, and sold to consumers. This chapter illustrates how incentives for producers and other value chain actors will change as climate change reduces the effectiveness of inputs, such as herbicides and pesticides, increases the risks of spoilage faced by middlemen and retailers, and potentially leads to increases in transaction costs. Whole value chains may be affected from farmer to consumer; for example, if international shipping costs rise with increasing fuel costs, export-oriented chains for select products in some countries may become unprofitable and even disappear. Although research has largely neglected the impacts of climate change on value chains beyond the farm, one thing is clear — many value chain actors along with farmers will need to adapt to new realities, as they showed they were capable of in the face of disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Date 2022-05-12
2023-01-02T10:17:11Z
2023-01-02T10:17:11Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier de Brauw, A.; Pacillo, G. (2022) Food value chains: Increasing productivity, sustainability, and resilience to climate change. In Global Food Policy Report 2022: Climate Change and Food Systems. Washington (USA): IFPRI. p. 100-105. ISBN: 978-0-89629-425-7
978-0-89629-425-7
2329-2873
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126464
https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294257_11
 
Language en
 
Relation Global Food Policy Report
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 100-105
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute