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Climate Change 2016
October 27-29, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 9(Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change
ISSN: 2157-7617 JESCC, an open access journal
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October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain
World Conference onClimate Change
Climate change and global food security in the face of other stressors: The challenges for agricultural
transformation, adaptation and conservation
Christopher R Bryant1,2, Antonia D Bousbaine3, Chérine Akkari 4, Omarou Daouda5, Kénel Delusca6, Terence Épule Épule7, Mamadou A Sarr8 and
Charles Drouin-Lavigne9
1University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3University of Liege, Belgium
4University of Waterloo, Canada
5United Nation Development Programme, Canada
6European Union Climate Change Project in Haïti, Haiti
7Université de Montréal, Canada
8Centre de Suivi Écologique, Sénégal
9Consultant (Sustainable Development, Environment, Impact Studies), Canada
One of the most important effects of climate change and variability for human society is its impacts upon global food
security, through its impacts upon agriculture and agricultural yields. In certain countries and regions, these impacts can
be multiplied many times because food production resources, notably farmland, are already vulnerable because of drought
conditions. In any investigation of the effects of climate change on human activities such as agriculture and food production,
it is also crucial to appreciate the multiple stresssors that these activities must contend with. In particular, even when far, land
resources, including climate, are good to very good, even after the effects of climate change and variability (CCV) are taken into
account, these activities near cities also often have to face continued urbanization pressures. In several developed countries,
such as Canada and much of Western Europe, for instance, major cities are surrounded by good to excellent farmland resources
in relatively temperate climates. Food security is also an increasingly important concern for some population segments in
these cities and there has been a growing emphasis on local and regional sources of food for these cities and these population
segments. Maintaining food production potential in these regions (and also to contribute to food security globally) face some
major challenges for agriculture which must be transformed, must adapt to CCV and at the same time the farmland resource
must be conserved. We therefore tackle, in the context of CCV, Agricultural Transformation, Adaptation and Conservation
(ATAC).
Biography
Christopher R Bryant completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was Professor in Geography, University of Waterloo, from
1970-1990 and then in Géographie, Université de Montréal, from 1990-2014. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Montréal and Guelph. He has
published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewd journals, over 30 books and over 150 chapters in books and has made several hundred presentations at conferences.
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