In early 2008 Warwick HRI produced a report for Defra entitled Direct energy use in agriculture: opportunities for reducing fossil fuel inputs. (This is a pay service from Defra.)

In this article, published in Science in January 2008, the research team analysed climate risks and adaptation priorities for crops in 12 food-insecurre regions, basing the analysis on statistical crop models and climate projections for 2030. Their results highlight the fact that in the absence of sufficient adaptation measures, there will be negative impacts on crops grown in South Asia and Southern Africa, that are important to large food-insecure human populations.