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For maize, heat-tolerant varieties showed the highest potential, while nitrogen-use efficiency was most beneficial for rice.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001673#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Climate change threatens the nutritional quality of crops; for example, wheat grown under projected 2050 CO2 levels may have 9% less zinc, 5% less iron, and 6% less protein.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001673#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Trade openness is critical for adaptation as it allows countries to offset local productivity losses, but trade restrictions (such as tariff increases) could raise food prices by an average of over 25% by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001673#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Food supply chains are vulnerable to climate-related disruptions, particularly in the 'cold-chain' where temperature increases raise risks of food poisoning and spoilage, and increase the prevalence of aflatoxins in crops like maize and groundnuts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001673#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Agricultural production contributes approximately 11% of total anthropogenic GHG emissions (excluding land-use change), and combined with forestry and other land uses, it accounts for about a quarter of annual emissions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001673#insight-10","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document warns that 'maladaptation' can occur when actions taken to reduce vulnerability inadvertently increase the vulnerability of other systems or social groups, such as certain biofuel development programs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"wri-001673#insight-11","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["food security","Climate-smart agriculture","agricultural irrigation","gene editing","trade policy","greenhouse gas emissions","land degradation","biodiversity","Climate information service","precision agriculture","climate migration"],"geography_discussed":["sub-Saharan Africa","Africa","Philippines","Ethiopia","Kenya","Tanzania","Uganda","Morocco","Bangladesh","Vietnam","Brazil","Sweden"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["risk assessment","policy analysis","literature review","economic modeling"]},{"id":"wri-001708","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/wri-001708","title":"Climate Resilience through Social Protection","publisher":{"name":"World Resources Institute","organization":"world-resources-institute"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":"2019-08-02","source_url":"https://files.wri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/Climate_Resilience_through_Social_Protection_Paper_-_Global_Commission_on_Adaptation.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The paper examines how social protection instruments—specifically cash transfers and public works programs—can be leveraged to build climate resilience. 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