Climate Change and Food Systems: Assessing Impacts and Resilience - Mohamed Behnassi

As part of the CERES publication series, this contributed volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary assessment of how climate change is reshaping food systems across diverse ecological, socio-economic, and geographical contexts. Moving beyond a narrow focus on agricultural production, it examines food systems as complex socio-ecological systems whose vulnerability and resilience emerge from the interactions among climatic, environmental, institutional, technological, and governance factors. Through a rich collection of region-specific case studies spanning arid lands, mountain environments, irrigated agriculture, horticulture, livestock, and aquatic systems, the volume reveals how climate risks propagate across production, ecosystems, livelihoods, and food security. It highlights the multidimensional drivers of vulnerability while examining the ecological, social, and institutional conditions that shape adaptive capacity and resilience. Bringing together empirical evidence, modelling approaches, and governance perspectives, this volume offers an integrated understanding of the climate–food systems nexus. An essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, it provides the analytical foundations needed to better understand systemic risks and inform future strategies for building more resilient, sustainable, and equitable food systems.