2. Chris Lang, “The gaping chasm between climate science and climate negotiations”, World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, No. 143, June 2009.

3. Global Humanitarian Forum, Human Impact Report, May 2009, http://tinyurl.com/lqvs6v

4. William R. Cline, Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country, Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007, http://tinyurl.com/nc4hsr

5. John T. Trumble and Casey D. Butler, “Climate change will exacerbate California’s insect pest problems,” California Agriculture, Vol. 63, No. 2, http://tinyurl.com/m3qf85

6. William R. Cline, Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country, Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007, http://tinyurl.com/nc4hsr

7. According to Cline, evapotranspiration (the combined loss of moisture from soil through evaporation and plants through stomatal transpiration) increases with temperature.

8. According to the report of the IAASTD, irrigation water supply reliability is expected to decline in all regions, with a global decrease from 70% to 58% from 2000 to 2050. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), Global Report, 2008, http://tinyurl.com/6r82ry

9. Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray, David Wheeler, “Sea-Level Rise and Storm Surges: A Comparative Analysis of Impacts in Developing Countries,” The World Bank, Development Research Group, Environment and Energy Team, April 2009.

10. FAO, “The wildland fire problem”, Rome, 27 July 2009, http://tinyurl.com/n4qfcv

11. American Geophysical Union and Harvard University, “Damage, pollution from wildfires could surge as western US warms”, 28 July 2009, http://tinyurl.com/l53keg

12. See GRAIN’s resources web page on the food crisis, www.grain.org/foodcrisis/

13. See GRAIN’s resources web page on the global land grab, www.grain.org/landgrab/

14. Wikipedia, list of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita, 1990--2005, http://tinyurl.com/yzh39x

15. Greenpeace Canada, “L’agriculture … pire que les sables bitumineux! Rapport de Statistique Canada”, 10 June 2009, http://tinyurl.com/nkd5pp

16. Data in this paragraph is from Food & Water Watch, “Fuels and Emissions from Industrial Agriculture”, Washington, November 2007, http://tinyurl.com/mdgypy

17. FAO, “The energy and agriculture nexus”, Rome 2000, Tables 2.2 and 2.3, http://tinyurl.com/2ubntj

18. GRAIN, “Stop the agrofuel craze!”, Seedling, July 2007, www.grain/seedling/?id=477

19. Data in this paragraph is from Food & Water Watch, “Fuels and Emissions from Industrial Agriculture”, Washington, November 2007, http://tinyurl.com/mdgypy

20. Tristram Stuart, “Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal”, Penguin, 2009, http://tinyurl.com/m3dxc9