1. 1. Food & ClimateConnecting the DotsDiana DonlonCool Foods Campaign Director,Center for Food SafetyTufts UniversityNovember 22, 2014
2. 2. The Global FoodSystem has beenignored as a sourceof GHGs. It has alsobeen overlooked as asource of globalsolutions. Climatechange is animmediate threat tofood production.Agro-ecologicalpractices, includingorganic, are themeans by which wewill be able toachieve food securityin an era of climatedisruption.
3. 3. The AnthropoceneClimate Change Manifestations Extreme Weather Deluge & Drought Shifting Weather Patterns Rising Temperatures
4. 4. Extreme WeatherExtreme Weather
5. 5. Deluge & Drought IPCC: Rainfall patterns will shift More intense precipitationevents by early 21st century Prolonged, acute drought bylate 21st century Estimated annual water deficitis 160 billion tons The water needed toproduce 160 million tons ofgrain. 533 million people are fedwith grain produced withunsustainable water use.
6. 6. Shifting Weather Patterns Earlier Springs, Warmer Winters Higher survival rates of pathogens Northern migration of invasive species Shifting spatial and temporal distributions ofpathogens
7. 7. Rising Temperatures IPCC: 1982-2012 was likelythe warmest 30-year period ofthe last 1,400 years. IPCC: Warming will continuethrough 2100. More frequent, warmernights. Evaporation andEvapotranspiration
8. 8. Where is carbon going?Carbon is constantly cycling through major pools. Too much carbon in theatmosphere is heating theplanet. Too much carbon in theocean is causing it toacidify. But, carbon in the soil notonly has the capacity toabsorb excess carbon, it isbeneficial.
9. 9. Carbon is plantfood and plantscan rapidlytransfer carbonfrom sky to soil.
10. 10. Cool Foods sees soil health as the key to solvingmultiple food and climate problems.we need to rebuildsoil organic matter on a global scale.
11. 11. is part of an emergingcommunity communicatingsoil solutions to climate problems.Thank you Bio4Climate for helping usdisseminate this critical message!