Plant responses to climate change, how global warming may impact on food security: a critical review
Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism · Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Global agricultural production must double by 2050 to meet the demands of an increasing world human population but this challenge is further exacerbated by climate change. Environmental stress, heat, and drought are key drivers in food security and strongly impacts on crop productivity. Moreover, global warming is threatening the survival of many species including those which we rely on for food production, forcing migration of cultivation areas with further impoverishing of the environment and of the genetic variability of crop species with fall out effects on food security. This review considers the relationship of climatic changes and their bearing on sustainability of natural and agricultural ecosystems,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 73.31
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 174
Authors
5Topics & keywords
- Food security
- Sustainability
- Agriculture
- Natural resource economics
- Agricultural productivity
- Climate change
- Phenomics
- Global warming
- Zero hunger