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Assessing the risks and impacts from climate variability and change is an important activity for society in order to secure the world鈥檚 food needs and manage food production systems sustainably. This needs to be based upon sound scientific knowledge and understanding of the processes that drive climate variability and future changes. The course is of relevance to students that wish to gain a better understanding of risks from climate variability and change including the impacts upon agriculture and food production systems.

Global agriculture and food production systems are impacted by significant variability in climate on many temporal and spatial scales. The course will commence with a review of global climate trends and will focus on recent climate history, the many phenomena that drive climate and weather, discusses climate variability, and reviews and assesses the impacts of current and future projected climatic changes. Australia provides an example as world-leader in adapting its food production systems to climate variability and in utilising information such as climate observations and forecasting tools. Current autonomous and planned adaptation practices and possible response strategies to future climatic impacts will be discussed.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to demonstrate:

1. a depth of understanding of global climate, its variability and future change
2. a broad understanding of the effects of climate variability and climate change on agriculture
3. the ability to critically assess climate risks to agriculture and food production systems
4. an ability to utilise climate information to assess climate variability.