You’d need to think there was a very significant failure of markets to assume that food supplies wouldn’t be adapted quickly enough to minimize this impact. That’s not impossible, but you don’t need central management to get people to adapt—this isn’t a sudden change that we need to prep for, it’s a gradual shift. That’s not to say there aren’t smart things that could significantly help, but there are plenty of people thinking about this, so I don’t see it as neglected of likely to be high-impact.
I’m expecting the richer nations to adapt more easily, So I’m expecting a swing away from food production in the less rich nations as poorer farmers would have a harder time adapting as there farms get less productive (and they have less food to sell). Also farmers with now unproductive land would struggle to buy food on the open market
I’d be happy to be pointed to the people thinking about this and planning on having funding for solving this problem. Who are the people that will be funding the teaching of subsistence rice farmers (of all nationalities) how to farm different crops they are not used to etc? Providing tools and processing equipment for the new crop. Most people interested in climate change I have met are still in the hopeful mitigation phase and if they are thinking about adaptation it is about their own localities.
This might not be a pressing problem now[1], but it could be worth having charities learning in the space about how to do it well (or how to help with migration if land becomes uninhabitable).
You’d need to think there was a very significant failure of markets to assume that food supplies wouldn’t be adapted quickly enough to minimize this impact. That’s not impossible, but you don’t need central management to get people to adapt—this isn’t a sudden change that we need to prep for, it’s a gradual shift. That’s not to say there aren’t smart things that could significantly help, but there are plenty of people thinking about this, so I don’t see it as neglected of likely to be high-impact.
I’m expecting the richer nations to adapt more easily, So I’m expecting a swing away from food production in the less rich nations as poorer farmers would have a harder time adapting as there farms get less productive (and they have less food to sell). Also farmers with now unproductive land would struggle to buy food on the open market
I’d be happy to be pointed to the people thinking about this and planning on having funding for solving this problem. Who are the people that will be funding the teaching of subsistence rice farmers (of all nationalities) how to farm different crops they are not used to etc? Providing tools and processing equipment for the new crop. Most people interested in climate change I have met are still in the hopeful mitigation phase and if they are thinking about adaptation it is about their own localities.
This might not be a pressing problem now[1], but it could be worth having charities learning in the space about how to do it well (or how to help with migration if land becomes uninhabitable).
[1] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/07/25/climate-change-food-agriculture/ suggests that some rice producing regions might have problems soon