The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055

dc.creator	Jones, Peter G.
dc.creator	Thornton, Philip K.
dc.date	2003-04
dc.date	2013-05-06T07:01:07Z
dc.date	2013-05-06T07:01:07Z
dc.date.accessioned	2026-06-27T16:30:08Z
dc.description	The impacts of climate change on agriculture may add significantly to the development challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. We show the possible impacts on maize production in Africa and Latin America to 2055, using high-resolution methods to generate characteristic daily weather data for driving a detailed simulation model of the maize crop. Although the results indicate an overall reduction of only 10% in maize production to 2055, equivalent to losses of $2 billion per year, the aggregate results hide enormous variability: areas can be identified where maize yields may change substantially. Climate change urgently needs to be assessed at the level of the household, so that poor and vulnerable people dependent on agriculture can be appropriately targeted in research and development activities whose object is poverty alleviation.
dc.identifier	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/28668
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/124641
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.rights	Limited Access
dc.source	Global Environmental Change;13(1): 51-59
dc.subject	climate
dc.subject	maize
dc.subject	plant production
dc.subject	poverty
dc.subject	models
dc.subject	ecology
dc.title	The potential impacts of climate change on maize production in Africa and Latin America in 2055
dc.type	Journal Article

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