CLIMATE-CHANGE AND WORLD FOOD SECURITY

What is known about the implications of climate change for world food security? This special issue draws on material presented at a recent i nternational workshop at the University of Oxford. It focuses especial ly on the distributional impacts of a changing climate and the differe nt levels and sources of vulnerability to environmental change. It rev iews recent results from two international agricultural models and exa mines the potential impacts on agriculture of measures to prevent clim ate change. A companion special issue of the journal Food Policy addre sses the regional and global context of future food security in relati onship to a changing environment.