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Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture

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Title Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture
 
Creator Kleinwechter, U.
Levesque, Antoine
Havlík, Petr
Forsell N
Zhang Y
Fricko O
Obersteiner, Michael
 
Subject agriculture
climate change
mitigation
efficiency
food security
 
Description Concerns exist regarding potential trade-offs between climate change mitigation in
agriculture and food security. Against this background, the Global Biosphere
Management Model (GLOBIOM) is applied to a range of scenarios of mitigation
of emissions from agriculture to assess the implications of climate mitigation for
agricultural production, prices and food availability. The “food efficiency of
mitigation” (FEM) is introduced as a tool to make statements about how to attain
desired levels of agricultural mitigation in the most efficient manner in terms of
food security. It is applied to a range of policy scenarios which contrast a climate
policy regime with full global collaboration to scenarios of fragmented climate
policies that grant exemptions to selected developing country groups. Results
indicate increasing marginal costs of abatement in terms of food calories and
suggest that agricultural mitigation is most food efficient in a policy regime with
global collaboration. Exemptions from this regime cause food efficiency losses
 
Date 2015-11-10
2015-11-10T11:15:27Z
2015-11-10T11:15:27Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Kleinwechter U, Levesque A, Havlík P, Forsell N, Zhang Y, Fricko O, Obersteiner M. 2015. Global food efficiency of climate change mitigation in agriculture. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68882
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security