Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change: Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Climate change and weather extremes are already impacting millions ofpeople, devastating crops, eroding coastlines, and threatening freshwater reserves.A continued build-up of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is expected to lead towarming, more acidic oceans and a continued rise in the sea level, changed weatherpatterns, and an even more significant threat to supplies of food, water, and fish(IPCC 2014). The food and agriculture sector is particularly vulnerable and will behit in multiple ways (FAO 2016a).