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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture Welcome to new members—we now have at least 500 people in our network. Zilberman, D. et al. 2004. The economics of climate change in agriculture. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 9 (4): 365-382. Available here The American Agricultural Economics Association Magazine, Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm & Resource Issues has several articles of interest in Vol. 19 Issue 3 (Fall) 2004. Available here Brent Sohngen, Guest Editor Overview: The Climate-Change Squeeze Facing the United States and US Agriculture (see website) - Brent Sohngen and Bruce A McCarl Agriculture and forestry in the United States face pressures from the eventual effects of climate change and from efforts to control greenhouse gasses. This set of papers looks at the economic consequences from both pressures. US Agriculture and Climate Change: Perspectives from Recent Research John Reilly Across several projections of climate change in the coming century, total food production in the United States is not found to be at risk. Some regions, however, could experience declining production and profitability due to unfavorable climate, water availability, ecological pressures, or extreme weather events. Article available here Making the desert bloom The Wall Street Journal Europe | November 18, 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry I. Miller, a fellow at the Hoover Institution and former FDA official, and Gregory Conko, the director of food safety policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute write in this op-ed that researchers at Cario's Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute have shown that by transferring a single gene from barley to wheat, the plants can tolerate less watering for a longer period of time before their leaves wilt. This new, drought-resistant variety requires only one-eighth as much as much irrigation as conventional wheat, and actually can be cultivated with rainfall alone in some desert areas. Researchers discover new way to boost grain crops' drought tolerance Article available here UC Riverside Media Release | November 17, 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside report that development of technology that increases the tolerance of grains crops to drought by decreasing the amount of an enzyme that is responsible for producing the plant hormone ethylene. UCR Biochemist Daniel R. Gallie led the research, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation and the California Agriculture Experiment Station. 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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