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| Titel |
Definition of impact indexes in Central American countries suffering food insecurity |
| VerfasserIn |
Rosario García Moreno, Emma Gaitán Fernández, Luis Torres Michelena, Javier Pórtoles, Luis Torres Michelena |
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EGU General Assembly 2011
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 13 (2011) |
| Datensatznummer |
250047193
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Central American region is continuously affected by negative climatologically events. These
events have great impact in the agricultural production and especially in the regions more
vulnerable originating food insecurity and lack of nutritional status. One of the biggest
problems associated to the negative impact is the high risk of soil losses through
flooding. The soil conservation practices are highly associated to the development of
impact indexes to prevent losses of crop and animal production in order to mitigate
food insecurity. The different scenarios modelled for the future according to the
Intergovernmental Panel for Climatic Change (IPCC) have predicted an increase in
temperature and greater climatologically variations in the region. For that reason the main
objective of the present study was to define and calculate different impact indexes to
minimize and mitigate the potential negative effects emerging for the future climatic
situation. To obtain the different predicted scenarios a new technique of statistical
regionalization based on the analogue methods in two steps. This technique has been
developed by the Climate Research Foundation (Fundación para la Investigación
del Clima, FIC) and it gives daily series of temperature, minimum and maximum
temperatures, and the average rainfall for the whole XXI Century. The scenarios evaluated
the potential climatologically situations in order to assure food security for the
whole population of the region through the implementation of soil conservation
practices. |
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