Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18796
Title: Crop niche modeling projects major shifts in common bean growing areas
Contributor(s): Ramirez Cabral, Nadiezhda Yakovleva Zitz (author); Kumar, Lalit  (author)orcid ; Taylor, Subhashni  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.12.002
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18796
Abstract: Crops experience different climate stresses during development. The magnitude of damage will depend on the phenological stage of the crop and the stress duration. Climate change could intensify some or all of these stresses, thus negatively impacting agriculture. An assessment of staple crop productivity,quality and climatically suitable areas under climate change conditions is necessary to undertake any global initiatives to tackle food security issues. The common bean ('Phaseolus vulgaris' L.) is a staple crop and the main source of proteins and nutrients in Africa and Latin America. The purpose of this study is to develop a process-oriented niche model to assess the impacts of climate change on the current and future potential distribution of common bean and to use this model to investigate the changes in heat, cold, dry and wet stresses under climate change. We used A2 and A1B emission scenarios and two different global climate models, CSIRO-Mk3.0 and MIROC-H, for the years 2050 and 2100. Our results indicate future climate conditions are more favorable for common bean cultivation in the Northern Hemisphere, but are less favorable in the Southern Hemisphere. Heat and dry stresses are the main factors limiting and reducing common bean distribution under current and future projected conditions. Africa and Latin America are projected to decrease with respect to suitability for common bean cultivation. The model projections indicate that a shift in the common bean productive areas is highly likely with a loss of suitability of the current common bean cultivation areas and an increase in cold regions such as Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia. The results indicate the likelihood of changes in climatic suitability and the distribution of common bean at a global scale under a future climate, which will affect regions where this legume is a staple crop and an important source of household income. Regions in the Northern Hemisphere could take advantage of the increase in suitability by increasing the production and exportation of this grain.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, v.218-219, p. 102-113
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1873-2240
0168-1923
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050104 Landscape Ecology
050209 Natural Resource Management
050206 Environmental Monitoring
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 410206 Landscape ecology
410406 Natural resource management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960305 Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change
960303 Climate Change Models
960310 Global Effects of Climate Change and Variability (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. Social Impacts)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 190102 Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
190501 Climate change models
190507 Global effects of climate change (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. social impacts)
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Environmental and Rural Science

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