What impact could climate change have on food production and health?

03 March 2016

Portrait of Dr Marco Springmann

with Dr Marco Springmann
Senior Researcher on Environment and Health

Marco Springmann is a senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute. He is interested in the health, environmental, and economic dimensions of the global food systems. He often uses systems models to provide quantitative estimates on food-r...

Climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults in 2050 worldwide due to changes in diets and bodyweight from reduced crop productivity, according to new estimates from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food. Dr Marco Springmann discusses the study.