The Most Delicious Foods Will Fall Victim to Climate Change
5 years, 6 months ago

The Most Delicious Foods Will Fall Victim to Climate Change

Wired  

Amanda Little is the author of the new book The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. As George Bernard Shaw said, “There's no simpler love than the love of food.” It’s a topic that unifies people, and we do it every day, three times a day. NT: Was the hypothesis: “Climate change is the struggle of our time, and the single most important element of its consequences that we can deal with is food”? AL: Well, the main way that most people on Planet Earth are going to experience climate change is through its impact on food. But it was Jerry Hatfield, who's a USDA scientist, who said to me that the broadest disruption caused by climate change will be in food systems, because there will be very region-specific impacts: from droughts, from flooding, from intolerable heat.

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Climate change threatens global food supply: Scientists sound alarm
1 month ago

Climate change threatens global food supply: Scientists sound alarm

India Today  

As climate change intensifies, scientists are raising alarms about its devastating impact on global food security. A study published in Trends in Plant Science by an international team of researchers points to the urgent need to develop climate-resilient crops to avert severe food shortages, famine, mass migration, and global instability. Silvia Restrepo, President of the Boyce Thompson Institute and co-author …

Climate change could take your favorite dishes off the Thanksgiving table
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Climate change could take your favorite dishes off the Thanksgiving table

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ensuring farmers and ranchers can sustainably grow food on a changing planet is the key to maintaining abundant, safe …

How we grow food affects the climate. Here are solutions communities are taking to help
3 months, 4 weeks ago

How we grow food affects the climate. Here are solutions communities are taking to help

NPR  

How we grow food affects the climate. Here are solutions communities are taking to help toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. As NPR's climate solutions reporter Julia Simon puts it, "modern agriculture is a big driver of climate change. Some solutions start by honoring indigenous knowledge As the …

NPR’s “Climate Solutions Week: The Future of Food”
4 months ago

NPR’s “Climate Solutions Week: The Future of Food”

NPR  

NPR’s “Climate Solutions Week: The Future of Food” toggle caption NPR/NPR September 9, 2024; Washington, D.C. — Today, NPR is launching its second Climate Solutions Week highlighting the connections between food and climate change. “Climate Solutions Week: The Future of Food” will feature stories on broadcast shows, podcasts, and NPR.org, looking at how the food we eat affects the climate …

Climate Solutions Week: The future of food
4 months ago

Climate Solutions Week: The future of food

NPR  

Climate Solutions Week: The future of food Jackie Lay/NPR September 9-15, 2024 Climate experts say when it comes to global warming, pay attention to what we eat. We'll explore how we grow food, what we're shopping for in the grocery store and cooking, what we're eating, and what we end up throwing away. Sponsor Message Reporting teams across the NPR …

Andrew Zimmern: If We Don’t Change Our Ways, We Risk Losing Coffee (And Other Foods We Love)
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Andrew Zimmern: If We Don’t Change Our Ways, We Risk Losing Coffee (And Other Foods We Love)

Huff Post  

Illustration: Jianan Liu/HuffPost; Photo: COURTESY OF ANDREW ZIMMERN, Getty Images Andrew Zimmern is an Emmy-winning and four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef and writer who serves as curator and spokesperson for the food and climate programming of The Great Northern festival held in Minneapolis and St. Paul. He hosts the show “What’s Eating America” on MSNBC and authors a …

How climate change affects farming and food security
1 year, 1 month ago

How climate change affects farming and food security

Live Mint  

As impacts from prolonged droughts to extreme heat worsen, climate change is threatening the world's ability to produce enough nutritious food and ensure everyone has access to it. At COP28 in Dubai, more than 130 country leaders on Friday called for global and national food systems to be rethought to address climate change - the first such official recognition at …

Worsening heatwaves put entire global food system in jeopardy, scientists warn
1 year, 5 months ago

Worsening heatwaves put entire global food system in jeopardy, scientists warn

Raw Story  

Climate scientists warned Friday that worsening atmospheric and marine heatwaves threaten food security around the world. While extreme heat has long been recognized as a lethal health hazard that preys upon preexisting patterns of inequality and vulnerability, experts are trying to alert the public to another deadly dimension of the climate emergency: Soaring temperatures jeopardize the stability of the world's …

For real climate justice, it’s time for a food revolution
1 year, 9 months ago

For real climate justice, it’s time for a food revolution

Al Jazeera  

Climate finance and innovation need to focus on agriculture – now – if the planet is to withstand global warming. Front-line countries simultaneously need more and better ways to adapt to new climate realities to keep food on the table and clean, sustainable solutions that limit emissions and ensure such adaptation remains possible. Climate change is already affecting farmers worldwide …

Six foods that climate change is going to ruin
1 year, 11 months ago

Six foods that climate change is going to ruin

Salon  

We don't live in an agrarian society anymore, at least not here in the United States. "The full impact of climate change on the global food system is complex," Marie Cosquer, Advocacy Analyst on Food Systems and Climate Crisis for Action Against Hunger, wrote to Salon. "Coffee arabica is known to be specifically vulnerable to climate change impacts," Dr. Roman …

Climate Change & Food Inflation: One-Third of the Food Americans Buy Is Wasted
2 years ago

Climate Change & Food Inflation: One-Third of the Food Americans Buy Is Wasted

The Quint  

About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets Wasted food – and land, labor, chemicals, water and energy. Reducing wasted food could protect natural resources, save consumers money, reduce hunger and slow climate change. Developing meaningful interventions requires burrowing into the systems that make reducing food waste such a challenge for consumers, and …

Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat
2 years, 2 months ago

Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat

The Hindu  

Rolling crises linked to war, weather disasters and the pandemic have shaken global food systems and tipped millions into hunger and poverty. Others, like floods, can cause sudden "devastation of livelihoods and infrastructure", said Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor at Cornell University and a lead author of the UN's landmark IPCC report on climate impacts. Since then, record temperatures withered crops …

Weather this summer ‘threatens global food supplies’, scientists warn
2 years, 4 months ago

Weather this summer ‘threatens global food supplies’, scientists warn

The Independent  

Extreme weather this summer has slashed harvest forecasts, with experts warning that it could exacerbate the global food crisis. In a written briefing, an international group of experts warned that climate-driven extremes, such as heatwaves, flooding and drought, further threaten global food supplies already impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The situation also offers an insight into what the future …

Can the rich tackle climate crisis by eating local food?
2 years, 6 months ago

Can the rich tackle climate crisis by eating local food?

Live Mint  

The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, a new research has found. The results Researchers have found global food miles emissions to about 3 billion tonnes each year, or 19 per cent of total food emissions. Some 36 per cent of food transport …

How does the war in Ukraine impact food supply?
2 years, 6 months ago

How does the war in Ukraine impact food supply?

ABC  

The war in Ukraine is exacerbating an already alarming global food crisis, experts warn. David Beasley, the head of WFP, has called Russia's failure to open the ports in Ukraine to grain and agricultural exports "a declaration of war on global food security." The world is already experiencing "food shocks" – the loss of food supply due to climate events …

Alter food system to avoid climate risks
3 years, 2 months ago

Alter food system to avoid climate risks

China Daily  

By Fan Shenggen and Meng Ting | China Daily | Updated: 2021-11-01 06:40 Editor's note: The ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, United Kingdom, could prompt countries to make concerted efforts to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Five experts share their views on the issue with China Daily: MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY The global food system faces major …

As climate change disrupts supply chains, American life is poised to change drastically
3 years, 5 months ago

As climate change disrupts supply chains, American life is poised to change drastically

Salon  

When scientists talk about global warming, they often rattle off the ways in which it will turn our planet into something out of apocalyptic fiction. He said that current climate model projections are likely "underestimating the impact climate change is having on extreme summer weather events." "Various hazard events can disrupt food supply chains by impairing production of and access …

How Your Leftovers Are Feeding Climate Damage
5 years, 4 months ago

How Your Leftovers Are Feeding Climate Damage

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Mindful eating is all the rage lately. “Halving food loss and waste by 2030 is critical if we’re to feed the world without destroying the planet,” said WRI head Andrew Steer. It typically comes down to two main issues, Liz Goodwin, WRI senior fellow and director of food loss and waste, told HuffPost: We buy too much …

Climate change is threatening the world's food supply, says new IPCC report
5 years, 5 months ago

Climate change is threatening the world's food supply, says new IPCC report

Firstpost  

Not everyone needs to become a vegetarian, much less vegan, to keep the planet from overheating, but it would surely make things easier if they did. With two billion more mouths to feed by mid-century, it cannot simply be scaled up without pushing Earth’s thermometer deep into the red zone, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “special report”. …

It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
5 years, 10 months ago

It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

NPR  

It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change When NPR interviewed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in February about her Green New Deal, she said that her goal was bigger than just passing some new laws. "They're really heavy, and batteries are really heavy, and if you have to put a whole bunch of batteries on a truck it's really …

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