Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture
Chongqing University · Ministry of Education · +22 more institutions
Abstract
Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture's environmental impacts, by reducing agricultural productivity, reducing the efficacy of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating the growth and expanding the range of crop diseases and pests, and increasing land clearing. We identify multiple pathways through which climate change intensifies agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, creating a potentially powerful climate change-reinforcing feedback loop. The challenges raised by climate change underscore the urgent need to…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 382.67
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 149
Authors
40- YYYi Yang
Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, National Science and Technology Council
- DTDavid TilmanCorresponding
University of Minnesota, University of California, Santa Barbara
- ZJZhenong JinCorresponding
University of Minnesota
- PSPete Smith
University of Aberdeen
- CBChristopher B. BarrettCorresponding
Cornell University
Topics & keywords
- Climate change
- Agriculture
- Greenhouse gas
- Natural resource economics
- Agrochemical
- Sustainable agriculture
- Environmental science
- Sustainability
- Zero hunger