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Fall Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture Welcome to new members of our network. Be sure to pass this update along to anyone who might be interested in joining us. The Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry has just released its final report - Climate Change: We are at Risk - with a strong recommendation for substantial increases in funding and allocation of resources towards climate change impacts and adaptation research. The full report is available here. C-CIARN Agriculture continues to improve resources on our web site. New features include:
New publications availalble: Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity and Development By Joel B. Smith, Richard J.T. Klein, and Saleemul Huq. Hardcover - 356 pages - August 2003 - ISBN 186094373D A news release (Oct. 15/03) entitled, "Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: Benefits Dwindle as Picture Sharpens", from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States reports the following: Computer-based simulations of U.S. agriculture show that, by the year 2060, the benefits of climate change to American croplands could be less than previous work had indicated. A team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and several universities found that finer-scale simulations tend to reduce projected benefits and increase projected losses for a wide range of crops across most parts of the nation. More details here. All for now, Ellen Wall Co-ordinator, C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network for Agriculture) Blackwood Hall (Room 202) University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 Phone: 519 824 4120 ext 58480 Fax: 519 763 4686 www.c-ciarn.uoguelph.ca |
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