New research supported by the United Kingdom?s Foreign Office and insurer Lloyd?s of London finds that, absent major changes, humanity risks a catastrophic collapse in its ability to feed itself by mid-century, due in significant part to human-caused climate change. Last year, the United Nations? ?highly conservative? IPCC climate panel warned that humanity is risking a ?breakdown of food systems linked to warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation variability and extremes? on its current path of unrestricted carbon pollution. Many studies in the last 12 months have strengthened the scientific case (see this, for instance). The new research is from the Global Resource Observatory, a project of Anglia Ruskin University?s Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) partnering with the UK government?s Foreign Office; Lloyds of London; a ?coalition of leaders from business, politics and civil society?; the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; and both the Africa and Asian Development Banks.

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