Climate change has been identified as the biggest health threat of the 21st century, with the potential to reverse years... Read more
Food security
This research in practice article is a reflective narrative documenting how we have developed CCIEVIs as a discrete set of quantifiable indicators that are updated annually to provide the most recent picture of climate change’s impacts on human health. Read more
The authors of this paper investigate the extent to which current changes in food insecurity can be plausibly attributed to climate change. They combine food insecurity data for 83 countries from the FAO food insecurity experience scale (FIES) with reanalysed climate data from ERA5-Land, and use a panel data regression with time-varying coefficients. Read more
Malawi depends on Lake Malawi outflows into the Shire River for its water, energy and food (WEF) security. The authors of this paper explore future WEF security risks under the combined impacts of climate change and ambitious development pathways for water use expansion. Read more
This is the first paper to track food insecurity and its determinants during the pandemic using multi-country and multi-wave evidence. Read more
In this video for the Stockholm Environment Institute, lead author Kevin M. Adams summarizes the key insights on trade, climate change and food security from a report jointly published by SEI, Mistra Geopolitics and Adaptation Without Borders. Read more
This paper provides micro-founded evidence needed to design policies that both improve agricultural yields in the context of a changing climate and target households’ abilities to cope with shocks that put upwards pressure on food prices. Read more
This policy brief, for the Stockholm Environment Institute, presents policy insights from a groundbreaking assessment of climate risks to international trade in six major commodities. Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected food security across the world. As governments respond in different ways both with regards to... Read more
This report, for the Stockholm Environment Institute, provides a first systematic, quantitative assessment of transboundary climate risks to trade in major agricultural commodities – maize, rice, wheat, soy, sugar cane, and coffee. Read more