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The first decade of the 21st century has seen several harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food price spike of 2008, with its consequent food riots and resulting political changes in several countries, awoke the world’s leaders to the re-emergence of this threat to human ...


Nelson, Gerald C.Rosegrant, Mark W.Palazzo, AmandaGray IIngersoll CRobertson, Richard D.Tokgoz SZhu, T.Sulser TBRingler, ClaudiaMsangi SYou, Liangzhi[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options]Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options

We investigated the spatiotemporal variability of drought incidence in Pakistan during 1960–2007 by calculating Standardized Precipitation Index fields for 3-, 6- and 12-month scales using gridded precipitation data. Principal component analysis revealed that droughts are wide-spread and often oc...


Xie HRingler, ClaudiaZhu, T.Waqas A[Droughts in Pakistan: A spatiotemporal variability analysis using the standardized precipitation index]Droughts in Pakistan: A spatiotemporal variability analysis using the standardized precipitation index

Climate change is expected to considerably affect the water resources in the Indus River basin in Pakistan and thus agricultural production in the country. This article reports an analysis of the impacts of various climate scenarios on both water resources and food production out to 2050. While c...


Zhu, T.Ringler, ClaudiaIqbal MMSulser TBGoheer MA[Climate change impacts and adaptation options for water and food in Pakistan: scenario analysis using an integrated global water and food projections model]Climate change impacts and adaptation options for water and food in Pakistan: scenario analysis using an integrated global water and food projections model

The first decade of the 21st century has brought harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food-price spike of 2008 led to food riots and political change in several countries. In 2010, the excessive heat and drought in Russia that led to wildfires and a grain embargo, as well...


Nelson, Gerald C.Rosegrant, Mark W.Palazzo, AmandaGray IIngersoll CRobertson, Richard D.Tokgoz SZhu, T.Sulser TBRingler, ClaudiaMsangi SYou, Liangzhi[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: challenges to 2050 and beyond]Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: challenges to 2050 and beyond

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