Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition
The World Health Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change propose undernutrition as the most significant impact of climate change on child health. The question then arises: Where does the empirical evidence to back this claim come from? Current evidence for the impacts of clim...
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| author | Phalkey, Revati K. Aranda-Jan, Clara Marx, Sabrina Höfle, Bernhard Sauerborn, Rainer |
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| description | The World Health Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change propose undernutrition as the most significant impact of climate change on child health. The question then arises: Where does the empirical evidence to back this claim come from? Current evidence for the impacts of climate on childhood undernutrition draws on a limited number of heterogeneous studies with methodological limitations and is based predominantly on secondary data. Establishing and validating causal pathways among complex confounding factors remain the main challenge in quantifying the climate-attributable fraction of undernutrition. Systematically generating evidence from long-term, high-quality primary data on a range of factors (agricultural, environmental, socioeconomic, and health) at the household level is critical for designing adaptation strategies, particularly for subsistence farmers. |
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| spelling | nottingham-361522020-05-04T17:12:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36152/ Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition Phalkey, Revati K. Aranda-Jan, Clara Marx, Sabrina Höfle, Bernhard Sauerborn, Rainer The World Health Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change propose undernutrition as the most significant impact of climate change on child health. The question then arises: Where does the empirical evidence to back this claim come from? Current evidence for the impacts of climate on childhood undernutrition draws on a limited number of heterogeneous studies with methodological limitations and is based predominantly on secondary data. Establishing and validating causal pathways among complex confounding factors remain the main challenge in quantifying the climate-attributable fraction of undernutrition. Systematically generating evidence from long-term, high-quality primary data on a range of factors (agricultural, environmental, socioeconomic, and health) at the household level is critical for designing adaptation strategies, particularly for subsistence farmers. National Academy of Sciences 2015-07-27 Article PeerReviewed Phalkey, Revati K., Aranda-Jan, Clara, Marx, Sabrina, Höfle, Bernhard and Sauerborn, Rainer (2015) Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (33). E4522-E4529. ISSN 1091-6490 Climate change Weather variability Malnutrition Childhood undernutrition Crop yield http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4522.abstract doi:10.1073/pnas.1409769112 doi:10.1073/pnas.1409769112 |
| spellingShingle | Climate change Weather variability Malnutrition Childhood undernutrition Crop yield Phalkey, Revati K. Aranda-Jan, Clara Marx, Sabrina Höfle, Bernhard Sauerborn, Rainer Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| title | Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| title_full | Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| title_fullStr | Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| title_short | Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| title_sort | systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition |
| topic | Climate change Weather variability Malnutrition Childhood undernutrition Crop yield |
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