Top tip: best reads about the IPCC report

April 24th 2014

Brigitte Alarcon

Brigitte Alarcon

A cheat sheet on the food-related findings of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

 

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released at the end of March 2014. Two sections within the AR5 address issues relating to climate change, food and agriculture: Chapter 7 on Food Security and Food Production Systems and the Summary for Policy Makers.

If you haven’t had the chance to read these, here is a compilation of the best blogs, briefs and articles relating to the AR5 on climate change, food and agriculture:

–       Start with a great infographic summarizing the predicted effects of climate change on food and farming, available on the CCFAS / CGIAR website: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/images/IPCCAg_2010(1).png

–       CCFAS / CGIAR also provided a very comprehensive info note on climate change, food security and small-scale producers

httpss://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/35215/IPCC_info_note-3April14.pdf?sequence=7

–       Tim Gore, International Policy Adviser, Climate Change at Oxfam, shares the report’s five key lessons:

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2014/03/5-things-we-learned-from-the-latest-report-on-climate-change

–       Read about the views of business leaders in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/apr/01/business-reactions-ipcc-climate-change-report-experts

–       The National Geographic reports that Artic indigenous knowledge gains strength in the AR5: https://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/03/arctic-indigenous-knowledge-gains-strength-in-latest-ipcc-climate-report/

–       Greenpeace sums up what the report says on food and agriculture in its two-page briefing: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2014/IPCC-WGII-Agriculture.pdf

–       Report from the IPCC searched for some silver linings – but it still makes for sobering reading, says The Grocer

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/opinion/the-grocer-blog-daily-bread/climate-change-report-seeks-silver-lining/356087.blog

 

Brigitte Alarcon

LiveWell Policy Officer – WWF UK

 

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