How climate change mitigation policies complicate global food security

One of the biggest concerns associated with climate change is that land loss will impact our ability to feed a growing global population and threaten food security. In the first assessment of its kind, an international team of researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan set out to shed light on the relationship between food security and climate change mitigation. The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, examines how …