Shocks to food-production systems all over the world have become more prevalent in recent decades. Under further global warming, climate hazards such as concurrent heat and drought make these shocks even more likely, potentially leading to higher production losses and widespread food insecurity. Shocks may also be caused or intensified from geo-political or socio-economic events. Impacts are exacerbated, for example, when several regions or systems are affected, leading to compounding or cascading effects across environmental and human systems.

In this webinar, we will explore potential cascading and compound shocks to global food production systems and their impacts, focusing on state-of-the-art tools and the current challenges and possibilities of going beyond impacts on single sectors or shocks towards large-scale and multisectoral cascading impact assessment.

Speakers:

Dr Corey Lesk, Dr Franziska Gaupp, and Dr Peter Alexander.

Moderated by Dr Laura Suarez-Gutierrez.

For more information: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/slc-even...