U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Building Food Resilience. The effects of climate change on the food system will depend on the system's adaptive responses to local climate stressors. Adaptation can happen from the individual level to ...

Food Distribution. Food distribution systems at the local, national, and international scales are vulnerable to impacts of climate variability and change. Such impacts can affect transit time, deliver ...

International Food Security. Changes in crop and livestock production yields resulting from climate variability and change will have consequences for global food security, and could lead to global pri ...

Food Safety and Nutrition. Increased carbon dioxide levels, climate change, and climate variability all have the potential to increase the prevalence of some food-borne illnesses and affect the availa ...

Food Production. Warming temperatures, more frequent drought, intense precipitation, and increased pest populations could result in declining yields for major U. S. crops and decreased productivity of ...