Introduction / David Lobell, Marshall Burke -- Climate effects on food security : an overview / Marshall Burke, David Lobell -- Climate models and their projections of future changes / Claudia Tebaldi, Reto Knutti -- Crop response to climate : ecophysiological models / Jeffrey W. White, Gerrit...

The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as investments in, and dissemination of...

In the late 2000s, the world grain markets experienced severe turbulence with rapid crop price rises caused by bad crops, oil price hikes, export restrictions, and the emergence of biofuels as well as financial speculation. We review the impacts of the first four real-side factors using a world...