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CONTENTS
Contributing authors ix Foreword xi Preface xiii Acronyms xv
CCHAPTER 1
Climate change, food security and trade: An overview of global assessments
and policy insights
Aziz Elbehri, Joshua Elliott and Tim Wheeler 1
A. PART 1: Climate change impact modelling -current status and future direction 2
A1. Robust results from existing climate change impact studies 2 A2. Current modelling challenges 6 A3. Future research areas 7
B. PART 2: Critical issues at the interface of climate and food security 10
B1. Climate and nutrition: Improving analysis of climate-nutrition-health links 10 B2. Climate and water: Growing need for systematic climate-food-water analysis 11 B3. Climate mitigation and food security: Co-benefits versus trade-offs 12 B4. Climate and trade: Understanding the trends and tackling trade-offs 13 B5. Climate and poverty: Mainstreaming adaptation into development 14
C. PART 3: Policy messages, communication and the need for two-way science-policy dialogue 15
C1. Matching evidence on climate impacts to the needs of policy-makers 15 C2. Policy insights on climate change impacts under uncertainty 17 C3. Harmonizing climate and trade policy 18 C4. Recommendations for structured science-policy dialogue 19
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