1. Climate change and food security
DFID
Yvan Biot
Senior Scientist
Director of Research Office

2. Issues
• Sufficient, safe and nutritious food1
–Availability: production and trade
–Access: purchasing power and/or capacity to produce
–Utilisation: household ability to utilise and biological ability to digest
• Multiple pressures2
–Population, changing diets, urbanisation
–Competing demands on land
–Land, energy, water, P, food waste
–Input and output price volatilities
• Greenhouse gas emissions
1: Maxwell, D. et al., 2008: Emergency food security interventions. Good Practice Review nr 10. ODI, London
2: IDC, 2013: Global food security report. HC 176. House of Commons, London
Knox, J., et al., 2012: Climate change impacts on
crop productivity in Africa and South Asia
Systematic review of projected yield
changes (%) due to climate change

3. Policy responses
• Future Fit
– Food, water, energy, towns
– Resilience
• Food security
– More and sustainable production
– Improve resilience
– Ensure access to all
– Multiple entry-points
– infrastructure, trade, agribusiness, farmer organisation, innovation, …
• Global initiatives
– New alliance for food security and nutrition, G8 Nutrition for Growth
– Alliance on climate smart agriculture
Programme
Business Unit
Organisation

4. Project investments
• ICF
• Strengthen production
– Weather and climate predictions, resilient production, social protection
– BRACED, ASAP, …
• Engage markets and emerging economies
– Therapeutic foods (India), CLIMAA, …
• Allied programmes
– Water security, growth corridors, CC support programmes, …
• Low C and agriculture

5. Research and evidence
• Climate and environment
–Research: climate science, impacts, adaptation, water, ecosystems,…
–Innovation: cook-stoves, biofuels, decentralised energy generation, …
• Agriculture
–Research: CGIAR/CCAFS
–Innovation: climate smart rice, drought tolerant maize, flood tolerant
rice, evergreen agriculture, …
• Knowledge sharing
–CDKN: climate resilience and food security in Central America;
Caribbean – cocoa and tomatoes; …
–DFID Policy Division: CC impacts on value-chains

6. Main lessons
• Food security ≠ crop production
–Multiple entry-points for climate change to interact with
• Climate change ≠ the only problem
–Multiple pressures, complex interactions, dynamic
• It matters
–Policy – future fit, food and nutrition
–Project investments – ICF and core development budget
–Research and evidence