Abstract
Climate and other environmental change presents a number of challenges for effective food safety. Food production, distribution and consumption takes place within functioning ecosystems but this backdrop is often ignored or treated as static and unchanging. The risks presented by environmental change include novel pests and diseases, often caused by problem species expanding their spatial distributions as they track changing conditions, toxin generation in crops, direct effects on crop and animal production, consequences for trade networks driven by shifting economic viability of production methods in changing environments and finally, wholesale transformation of ecosystems as they respond to novel climatic regimes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Trends in Food Science and Technology |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Jul 2015 |