Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
A food-secure future for those most vulnerable
to environmental stress.
Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) is an international, interdisciplinary research project focussed on understanding the links between food security and global environmental change.
The GECAFS Goal is to determine strategies to cope with the impacts of global environmental change on food systems and to assess the environmental and socio-economic consequences of adaptive responses aimed at improving food security.
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Papers from the Food Security and Environmental Change Conference, April 2008, are now available online.
View presentations from the GECAFS high level Briefing on "Environmental Change and Food Security in the Indo-Gangetic Plains" (Delhi, India, 7 February 2009).
Food Security and Environmental Change Conference The conference summary report. See most of the presentations from the international conference "Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation" (Oxford, UK; 2-4 April 2008). A selection of papers will appear in June 2009 as a Special Issue of Environmental Science and Policy. Click here for an online version. The full background to the conference can be found at www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com. |
