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Climate Change
The uncertainty of projections across diverse climate indicators presents obvious challenges for managing the risks of climate change impacts. At the same time it also seems to offer potential gains for those organisations that can create and implement an effective risk...
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Black Swans
Our food security project examines the implications of climate change impacts for risk management and measures the preparedness of food industry leaders for riskier operating scenarios including, but not limited to, the highly improbable and unpredictable events with massive...
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The aim of this food security web site is to stimulate ideas and examine ways of improving food security, encouraging more focus on preparing for the future through improved resilience to what looks likely to be an increasingly volatile climate. Our site offers an independent source of analysis, commentary and news about food security from leading members of the research sector.
Join the discussion on food security via our LinkedIn group. Food Security 2050 is about preparing for the future and thinking about where we would like to be in 35 years time or more. If it’s good enough for companies like Toyota to have +50 year planning horizons then it must surely be time for food to be in the same space. We’ll let you know when new stories have been posted.
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In the meantime the new report on food security can be viewed at thisi link:
http://www.nccarf.edu.au/publications/food-security-risk-management-and-climate-change
Food Security
Food security is not just about food or security. It extends through supply and demand for food to access, to the way in which food is used, through to how people look after and take responsibility for their personal health.
That’s one of the findings of the recent report produced by Wondu Business & Technology Services (www.wondu.com) for the Australian Government (Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University in Queensland.
The challenges for food security are diverse and complex including the regulatory environment, climate change and risk management expertise for dealing with a growing list of uncertainties.
Some businesses and countries will get it right and others will be left short.
Food Policy
The regulatory climate is emerging as an important driver of food security.
Policy makers face complex challenges in dealing with food regulations which are often designed to protect food safety and quality, the environment and animal welfare, but not always with concern for food security.
Looking forward higher prices may/will have to be paid to achieve food security.
That’s one of the findings of the recent report produced by Wondu Business & Technology Services (www.wondu.com) for the Australian Government (Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency) and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University in Queensland.
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has reached agreement between...
Recent reports suggest it may now be too late to achieve a temperature increase of 2°C...
Humanitarian food rations are intended to meet the basic requirements (2,200...
One way of dealing with growing uncertainties about food security is to lift the quality...
The uncertainty of projections across diverse climate indicators presents obvious...
Our food security project examines the implications of climate change impacts for risk...
Food security is being revisited as a re-emerging risk. It’s not just about food...