To prevent hunger, climate adaptation requires billions in additional annual investments (SciTechDaily)

SciTechDaily published an article on how investments in agricultural research, water management, infrastructure can avert climate-fueled growth in hunger. The model used in the study, Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaption in the agrifood system links climate, crop, water, and economic models to analyze scenarios of future change in agricultural production, consumption, prices, and trade at national, regional, and global scales. The researchers compare various scenarios, including a future without climate change, ‘favorable’ trajectories in which population growth slows and per capita income rises, less optimistic demographic trajectories, and the most severe changes to climate. Senior Scientist Timothy Sulser explains, “The alternative investment scenarios entail a wide range of costs and generate a wide range of outcomes for the SDGs. Projections like these are never perfectly precise but they give us an idea of the costs, impacts, and trade-offs that policy-makers must consider in the coming years to adapt to climate change and prevent widespread hunger.”