Food-Climate Interactions: Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Berlin (West), December 9-12, 1980

ISBN-13: 9789027713544 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 504 str.

W. Bach; J. Pankrath; S. H. Schnieder

Opis

The present workshop is the third of a series of interna- tional conferences carried out within the framework of a research project on behalf of the Federal Minister of the Interior. Under this project, entitled "Impacts of Air Pollution on Climate", the Federal Environmental Agency (Umweltbundesamt) has sponsored so far: an international conference on "Man's Impact on Climate" at Berlin in June 1978, an international workshop on "Energy/Climate Interactions" at MUnster in March 1980; and an international workshop on "Food/Climate Interactions" at Berlin in December 1980, the results of which are pre- sented in this book. Based on the Federal Environmental Agency's report on "Im- pacts of Air Pollution on Climate", on November 11, 1979, the Federal Cabinet approved a climate research programme of the Federal Government. Details of the programme are being vlOrked out by a committee on climate research under the chairmanship of the president of the German Weather Service with the execu- tive office placed in the Federal Environmental Agency. This demonstrates that, by establishing a nationally co-or- dinated climate research programme, the Federal Government re- cognizes the importance of climate to the national economy. There- fore the Federal Republic of Germany intents to contribute appro- priately both to the comprehensive international programme of the United Nations on Climate and Environment, as represented by UNEP and WHO, and to the Climate Research Programme of the Commission of the European Communities.

Spis treści

I / Overview.- Interactions of Food and Climate: Issues and Policy Considerations.- Dimensions of the World Food and Climate Problem.- II / World Food Demand and Supply — Present and Future.- World Food Needs and Prospects.- Population Growth, Nutrition and Food Supply.- Seawater-Based Agriculture as a Food Production Defense against Climate Variability.- Agricultural Development Prospects until the Year 2000.- Discussion.- III / Climatic Variability and Food Production.- Climate Variability and Crop Yield in High and Low Temperate Regions.- Climatic Variability and Crop Yields in the Semi-Arid Tropics.- Climatic Variability and Sustainability of Crop Yield in the Moist Tropics.- Climate and Aquatic Food Production.- Discussion.- IV / Vulnerability of Food Supplies.- Water Resources and Food Supply.- Soil Management and the Food Supply.- Interrelations between Pests and Climatic Factors.- Food, Energy, and Climate Change.- Towards a Conservation Strategy to Retain World Food and Biosphere Options.- Discussion.- V / Assessment of Climate/Food Interactions.- Basic Data Requirements — Experience with the World Wheat Experiment of the World Meteorological Organization.- The Technology of Crop/Weather Modeling.- State of the Art of Predicting Short Period Climatic Variations.- Climatic Variability and Coherence in Time and Space.- Discussion.- VI / Policy Implications of Food/Climate Interactions.- Economic Consequences of Food/Climate Variability.- Strategies to Deal with Climate/Food Interactions in Developed Countries.- Strategies to Increase Food Production in Developing Countries.- Discussion.