Agriculture Chpt 7 Flashcards
Farming behaviour - study on
Holloway and Ilbery, 1996
Anthropogenic disturbances influence runoff, thus perturbing hydrological cycle (dams, irrigation etc.)
Wada et al 2010
Coral around 5 billion US dollars
Munday et al 2008
CO2 - O3 precursors - increase in tropospheric ozone - loss in crop yields
Morgan et al 2006
Models linking climate and agriculture must assume farmer behaviour (most assume practices and technologies did not adjust in response to climate but not in all cases)
Zhang et al 2008
60% more food will be needed by 2050 based on current consumption trends
FAO et al 2012
Most crop models on short timescale (past few decades) but some on global/ continental scale (including several climatic variables in trends)
You et al 2009
High confidence particular fish species will reach extinction at edge of their ranges
Simpson et al 2011
Range of potential adaptation options exist across all food system activities - in sufficiently researched
Refsgaard et al 2013
