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creators_name: Huda, S
creators_name: Sadras, V
creators_name: Wani, S P
creators_name: Mei, X
icrisatcreators_name: Wani, S P
affiliation: University of Western Sydney(New South Wales)
affiliation: South Australian R&D Institute
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture(Beijing)
country: Australia
country: India
country: China
title: Food Security and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region: Evaluating Mismatch between Crop Development and Water Availability
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.8
full_text_status: public
keywords: Food security, climate change, phenology, water availability, strategies
agrotags: <b>Agrotags</b>     - crops | climate | irrigation | precipitation | climatic change | yields | seasons | ecology | water availability | productivity <br><b>Fishtags</b>    - drying | pearls <br><b>Geopoliticaltags</b> - australia | india | china | western australia | asia | asia and the pacific | andhra pradesh | argentina | atmosphere
note: The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr. Kep Coughlan for his review and input in completing the paper. Thanks are also due to the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) for awarding a project to carry out research on this topic; University of Western Sydney; South Australian Research and Development Institute; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics; and Institute of Environment; Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
abstract: Phenological development is the single most important attribute of crop adaptation to shifting climates. Climate change may alter the rate of phenological development and the amount and distribution of rainfall during the growing season. These changes may in turn result in mismatch between water demand by crops and water availability from rainfall. This paper illustrates how an understanding of the impact of climate shifts on key crops will enable the Asia-Pacific farmers, community workers and policy agencies to better prepare and adapt to climate change. Strategies include changes to existing policy and practices, for example, timing of planting, managing rainwater resources, use of new varieties, disease management protocols, alternate crops and shift in geographic distribution of crops. An international project is described which combines a new analysis of realized changes in meteorological parameters, and use of estimates from published work on future climates to assess temporal shifts in crop phenology, likely shifts in the pattern of rain and water availability, mismatch between crop phenology and water availability, and the expected consequences of this mismatch for food security.
date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management
volume: 2
number: 2
publisher: Puspa
pagerange: 137-144
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://pphouse.org/uploads/abstract/FullView/3_144_general_huda_food%20security.pdf
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citation:   Huda, S and Sadras, V and Wani, S P and Mei, X  (2011) Food Security and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region: Evaluating Mismatch between Crop Development and Water Availability.  International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management, 2 (2).  pp. 137-144.      
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/71/1/hudafoodsecu.pdf