Transcript Resources, Limits, Challenges

Resources, Limits, Challenges
Cary Fowler
Global Crop Diversity Trust
Source: Global Crop Diversity Trust
The storm ahead.....
• Energy Limitations and Instability
• Water Limitations
• Climate change
• Biodiversity loss
• Constraints to farmland expansion
• Population growth
• Development pressures
• Under-investment in agricultural research
• Low stockpiles
Distributions of (summer) growing season temperature
against climate model predictions
Source: Naylor R. and Battisti D. 2008 (pers comm)