Climate change and critical thresholds in China's food security

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Xiong, Wei

作者： Xiong, Wei;Lin, Erda;Ju, Hui;Xu, Yinlong

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期刊名称：CLIMATIC CHANGE （ 影响因子：4.743； 五年影响因子：5.633 ）

ISSN： 0165-0009

年卷期： 2007 年 81 卷 2 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Identification of 'critical thresholds' of temperature increase is an essential task for inform policy decisions on establishing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets. We use the A2 (medium-high GHG emission pathway) and B2 (medium-low) climate change scenarios produced by the Regional Climate Model PRECIS, the crop model - CERES, and socio-economic scenarios described by IPCC SRES, to simulate the average yield changes per hectare of three main grain crops (rice, wheat, and maize) at 50 km x 50 km scale. The threshold of food production to temperature increases was analyzed based on the relationship between yield changes and temperature rise, and then food security was discussed corresponding to each IPCC SRES scenario. The results show that without the CO(2) fertilization effect in the analysis, the yield per hectare for the three crops would fall consistently as temperature rises beyond 2.5 degrees C; when the CO(2) fertilization effect was included in the simulation, there were no adverse impacts on China's food production under the projected range of temperature rise (0.9-3.9 degrees C). A critical threshold of temperature increase was not found for food production. When the socio-economic scenarios, agricultural technology development and international trade were incorporated in the analysis, China's internal food production would meet a critical threshold of basic demand (300 kg/capita) while it would not under A2 (no CO(2) fertilization); whereas basic food demand would be satisfied under both A2 and B2, and would even meet a higher food demand threshold required to sustain economic growth (400 kg/capita) under B2, when CO(2) fertilization was considered.

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