Global Environmental Change and Food Systems
A food-secure future for those most vulnerable
to environmental stress.
Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) is an international, interdisciplinary research project focussed on understanding the links between food security and global environmental change.
The GECAFS Goal is to determine strategies to cope with the impacts of global environmental change on food systems and to assess the environmental and socio-economic consequences of adaptive responses aimed at improving food security.
Latest News
Food Security and Global Environmental Change, a book edited by John Ingram, Polly Ericksen and Diana Liverman of GECAFS, will be published in late 2010. The book provides a major, accessible synthesis of the current state of knowledge and thinking on the relationships between GEC and food security. Click here for further information and to pre-order.
GECAFS Chair, Professor Diana Liverman, has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal, an award approved by Her Majesty the Queen, in recognition of her unique contribution to the understanding of the human dimensions of climate change. Click here for further information.
Date for the diary: Resilience 2011 will take place 11-16 March 2011 at Arizona State University, USA. The theme of the conference is Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change.
The latest edition of the IHDP UPDATE magazine - Governance as a Crosscutting Theme in Human Dimensions Science features three articles by GECAFS:
- The GECAFS Synthesis
- Governing Food Systems in the Context of Global Environmental Change
- Adaptive Food Governance
Papers from the Food Security and Environmental Change Conference, April 2008, are now available online.
View presentations from the GECAFS high level Briefing on "Environmental Change and Food Security in the Indo-Gangetic Plains" (Delhi, India, 7 February 2009).
Food Security and Environmental Change Conference The conference summary report. See most of the presentations from the international conference "Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation" (Oxford, UK; 2-4 April 2008). A selection of papers will appear in June 2009 as a Special Issue of Environmental Science and Policy. Click here for an online version. The full background to the conference can be found at www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com. |
