{"id":3524,"date":"2017-04-10T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2017-05-14T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:22:50","slug":"the-climate-and-global-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/doing-business\/2017\/04\/10\/the-climate-and-global-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climate and Global Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news is that despite the fact that the world’s population has doubled in the last 50 years<\/strong> or so, Malthusian predictions about a shortage of food have been proven unfounded to date and only 10.8 % of humanity is considered undernourished as opposed to 18.6% 15 years ago<\/strong>. The bad news is there are still 793 million people in the world without enough to eat and\u00a0climate change may have a devastating impact on the agricultural sector<\/strong> of more is not done to mitigate its effects and adapt the world’s food supply.<\/p>\n

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Complex System Dynamics<\/strong><\/p>\n

What makes this a complex topic to look at is that the system dynamics involved. Higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon, for example, will\u00a0be good for plants in general. On the other hand, rising temperatures will, most likely, create a number of problems for agriculture which will potentially erase that\u00a0benefit and make it more difficult to feed the planet. Negative\u00a0impacts include:<\/p>\n