Yang, Huiyi ORCID: 0000-0002-8725-7102, Dobbie, Steven ORCID: 0000-0001-8474-176X, Ramirez‐Villegas, Julian ORCID: 0000-0002-8044-583X, Feng, Kuishuang ORCID: 0000-0001-5139-444X, Challinor, Andrew J. ORCID: 0000-0002-8551-6617, Chen, Bing ORCID: 0000-0002-8577-849X, Gao, Yao ORCID: 0000-0002-7619-7829, Lee, Lindsay ORCID: 0000-0002-8029-6328, Yin, Yan, Sun, Laixiang ORCID: 0000-0002-7784-7942, Watson, James, Koehler, Ann‐Kristin ORCID: 0000-0002-1059-8056, Fan, Tingting and Ghosh, Sat ORCID: 0000-0002-1643-006X (2016) Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: A study of Indian groundnut. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (22). 11,786-11,795. ISSN 0094-8276 (Print), 1944-8007 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071209)

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Abstract

Geoengineering has been proposed to stabilize global temperature, but its impacts on crop production and stability are not fully understood. A few case studies suggest that certain crops are likely to benefit from solar dimming geoengineering, yet we show that geoengineering is projected to have detrimental effects for groundnut. Using an ensemble of crop-climate model simulations, we illustrate that groundnut yields in India undergo a statistically significant decrease of up to 20% as a result of solar dimming geoengineering relative to RCP4.5. It is somewhat reassuring, however, to find that after a sustained period of 50 years of geoengineering crop yields return to the nongeoengineered values within a few years once the intervention is ceased.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2016. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geoengineering; groundnut; climate change; India subcontinent
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2020 21:24
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28850

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