Agriculture in a Warming World: The Impact on the Future of Food

A major new scientific resource has been produced with the support of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Edited by Profs Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn, The Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation in Agriculture (Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2026) integrates evidence from empirical studies across five continents, providing one of the clearest pictures to-date of how climate change is influencing agriculture. The studies range from large-scale econometric analyses to micro-level surveys, covering Africa, Europe, the United States, Brazil, China, and Mediterranean countries. The result is a body of work revealing scientifically rigorous patterns that are highly relevant for policy and practice. The foreword from Wolf Prize Laureate David Zilberman highlights how the Handbook’s findings are thematically organized into climate impacts, adaptation, mitigation, and governance.