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 Grüter, Life Sciences faculty at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, told Salon by email. 02 Maize/Corn Corn Image_placeholder Image_placeholder In a 2021 paper in the scientific journal Nature Food, researchers created simulations based on the assumption of that farm managers would not alter their practices to accommodate climate change. "Wheat and other C3 crops benefit from CO2 in the atmosphere much more and in higher latitudes high-emission climate change scenarios can lead to crop yield increases in the models," Jägermeyr wrote to Salon.

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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 …

Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should they do more?
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should they do more?

Associated Press  

CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe — Gertrude Siduna appears to have little appetite for corn farming season. Muchaneta Mutowa, center, checks the weather while working in a plot that is part of a climate-smart agriculture program funded by the United States Agency for International Development in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. Villagers stand next to solar panels and water tanks that are …

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 …

UK food security hit by climate impacts at home and abroad, analysis warns
4 months, 4 weeks ago

UK food security hit by climate impacts at home and abroad, analysis warns

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. Read our privacy policy British food security is being hit by a double whammy of climate change impacts at …

Cause and Effect | How extreme weather events are leading to severe consequences for agriculture and food security
7 months, 1 week ago

Cause and Effect | How extreme weather events are leading to severe consequences for agriculture and food security

Hindustan Times  

The summer of 2024 has brought with it an unusually high number of heatwaves in India, leaving at least 150 dead due to suspected heatstroke till May 31 across the country. Prolonged dry spells in Southern Europe, particularly affecting Italy, Spain, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, an abnormally dry winter in western Canada, a winter in India with excess rains …

The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change
1 year ago

The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change

Wired  

There’s no denying it: Farming had a rough year. To be a farmer right now—or an agronomist or an agricultural economist—is to recognize how closely those weird weather events are linked to climate change. In fact, when the United Nations Climate Change Summit, known as COP28, ran in Dubai earlier this month, it featured a 134-country pact to integrate planning …

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 …

Climate change hits women’s health harder. Activists want leaders to address it at COP28
1 year, 1 month ago

Climate change hits women’s health harder. Activists want leaders to address it at COP28

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Manju Devi suffered in pain for two months last year as she worked on a farm near Delhi, unable to break away from duties that sometimes had her standing for hours in the waist-deep water of a rice paddy, lifting heavy loads in intense heat and spraying pesticides and insecticides. Manju Devi sits in a community center …

With India Leading, G20 Gets Down to Brass Tacks on Climate Resilient Agriculture
1 year, 4 months ago

With India Leading, G20 Gets Down to Brass Tacks on Climate Resilient Agriculture

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Climate change has emerged as a serious challenge to sustainable agriculture that can ensure food grains production to meet the needs of the people and India is playing its part in tackling this global test, Union minister of state for agriculture and farmers welfare Shobha Karandlaje said on Monday. Addressing the media at the start of the three-day G20 …

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 …

What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change?
1 year, 6 months ago

What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change?

Al Jazeera  

Extreme weather events in the world’s most populous and one of the poorest sub regions susceptible to food insecurity, displacement and diseases. Food insecurity For thousands of years, South Asia was seen as the world’s “granary” for agriculture – a region with weather patterns well-suited for growing crops, Pakistan-based climate scientist Fahad Saeed told Al Jazeera. Environmentalist Anjal Prakash said …

Explained | How have recent weather events affected wheat crop?
1 year, 9 months ago

Explained | How have recent weather events affected wheat crop?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The unusual rise in mercury in February this year, followed by an untimely spell of widespread rain accompanied by gusty winds and hails during the month of March in parts of the country’s key grain-producing States — Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Gujarat — have left wheat-growing farmers worried as they anticipate …

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 …

Punjab’s cotton, maize yield to dip by 11-13% by 2050, says report
1 year, 11 months ago

Punjab’s cotton, maize yield to dip by 11-13% by 2050, says report

The Hindu  

Climate change is predicted to reduce maize and cotton yield in Punjab by 13% and 11% by 2050, according to a new study conducted by agriculture economists and scientists at Punjab Agricultural University. The study published in the Mausam journal of the India Meteorological Department earlier this month used rainfall and temperature data collected between 1986 and 2020 to project …

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 …

Climate change threatens food but algae may offer answers
2 years, 3 months ago

Climate change threatens food but algae may offer answers

The Hindu  

In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the first volume of its latest authoritative report on climate change. One question that has remained largely unexamined, however, is whether “agri-food” applications of microalgae might offer promising options to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Microalgae could also provide a secure source of feeds in places where livestock deaths linked …

How to garden through climate change
2 years, 4 months ago

How to garden through climate change

Salon  

If you're struggling with your garden in these times of uncertain and extreme weather, who better to talk to than botanist and long-time organic gardener Sally Morgan, the British-based author of "The Healthy Vegetable Garden" and "The Climate Change Garden"? At the moment, we've got a heatwave — it's about 32°C — and is protecting my soil. Composting is great …

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 …

Experts link recent drop in wheat production to climate change
2 years, 4 months ago

Experts link recent drop in wheat production to climate change

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The year so far ranks among the worst for Ali, a 75-year-old farmer in Uttar Pradesh who lost 35 per cent of the wheat crop he sowed in his two-hectare field due to the heatwave. “I sowed the wheat seeds in December-end and harvested it in April, but the heatwave witnessed in March led to a loss of …

Wheat production drop: Experts link to climate change, urge India to take it up at COP27
2 years, 4 months ago

Wheat production drop: Experts link to climate change, urge India to take it up at COP27

India TV News  

Wheat Production drop: The year so far ranks among the worst for Ali, a 75-year-old farmer in Uttar Pradesh who lost 35 per cent of the wheat crop he sowed in his two-hectare field due to the heatwave. "I sowed the wheat seeds in December-end and harvested it in April, but the heatwave witnessed in March led to a loss …

Reimagining climate-resilient food systems in a post-pandemic world
2 years, 4 months ago

Reimagining climate-resilient food systems in a post-pandemic world

Hindustan Times  

Thinking about the future of global food systems has now become more critical than ever. Climate change impacts—among them, shifts in soil quality, precipitation, pest regimes, seasonal growth patterns, along with land degradation and reduction in biodiversity—have impacted agricultural and aquatic food production systems across the world. Indeed, the causal links between climate change and food security are manifesting more …

Opinion: The ‘cheap food’ era could soon be over. Here’s what comes next
2 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: The ‘cheap food’ era could soon be over. Here’s what comes next

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Tim Benton is Director of the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Adding to the crisis, Russia’s deliberate blockade of Odesa’s ports is preventing the grain harvested last year being shipped from Ukraine to import-dependent countries like Egypt, Libya and Somalia – all now in desperate need. By impeding the flow of grain from …

Food production to dip, hunger to rise in India due to climate change, says report
2 years, 7 months ago

Food production to dip, hunger to rise in India due to climate change, says report

The Hindu  

India’s food production could drop 16% and the number of those at risk for hunger could increase 23% by 2030 due to climate change, says a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute on climate change and food systems. These projections are part of a model that was used to evaluate the impact of climate change on aggregate food …

Farmers Can Play a Big Role in Addressing Climate Change. Climate-Smart Agriculture is The Only Way Forward
2 years, 8 months ago

Farmers Can Play a Big Role in Addressing Climate Change. Climate-Smart Agriculture is The Only Way Forward

News 18  

Punjab and Haryana’s farmers’ obsession with unsustainable big cereals wheat and paddy has begun to hurt, as returns diminish. According to a report tabled in parliament by the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture in August 2017, “the climate change is expected to reduce rice production by 6 to 8 per cent by 2022.” One degree Celsius rise in minimum or …

A difficult summer ahead for agriculture
2 years, 8 months ago

A difficult summer ahead for agriculture

Hindustan Times  

There’s no reason to panic, but reports of the adverse impact of the early summer on the wheat crop should concern agricultural policymakers. That this has happened at a time when India hopes to fill the gap in the global wheat market caused by the disruption of Russian and Ukrainian exports is merely incidental. Climate change, as evident from last …

Could Ethiopia’s ‘false banana’ be a wonder crop in face of the climate crisis?
2 years, 11 months ago

Could Ethiopia’s ‘false banana’ be a wonder crop in face of the climate crisis?

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. Read our privacy policy The climate crisis, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, has increased food insecurity for millions of …

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 …

Why Climate Change Could Affect Your Roti Sooner Than You Think
3 years, 3 months ago

Why Climate Change Could Affect Your Roti Sooner Than You Think

News 18  

It’s 2021 and the effects of climate change are more visible than ever. Global heating has arrived with a vengeance and will see Earth’s average temperature reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels around 2030, a decade earlier than projected only three years ago, according to a landmark UN assessment published in August. With only 1.1C of warming so far, …

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 …

Why GM crops are good for you
3 years, 8 months ago

Why GM crops are good for you

Live Mint  

If you have a problem with genetically modified crops, I have some bad news for you. Humans also carefully selected grains from wild rice and wheat plants that had other random mutations—seeds that separated from their hard, inedible casings by threshing, again a mutation that would have not survived in the wild because it’s in the plant’s genetic interest to …

Climate Change Has Caused 21% Decline in Agricultural Productivity Since the 60s
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate Change Has Caused 21% Decline in Agricultural Productivity Since the 60s

News 18  

Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a new study shows that global farming productivity is 21 per cent lower than it could have been without climate change. “We find that climate change has basically wiped out about seven years of improvements in agricultural productivity over the past 60 years,” said researcher Ariel Ortiz-Bobea …

7 major impacts of rapid climate change on land, oceans and atmosphere
4 years, 10 months ago

7 major impacts of rapid climate change on land, oceans and atmosphere

India Today  

Climate change has become a major factor in the rapid warming of heat and land, and the immense loss of biodiversity on the planet. According to the reports, these are the 7 major impacts of climate change on the world- 1. Displacement Because of hydrometeorological events such as Cyclone Idai in Southeast Africa and Cyclone Fani in South Asia, as …

Too dry to thrive: Climate change spurs Mexicans to change crops
4 years, 10 months ago

Too dry to thrive: Climate change spurs Mexicans to change crops

Al Jazeera  

Global warming may hurt Mexico more than many other countries. Sol Ortiz-Garcia, director of the agriculture ministry’s climate change group, noted that 75 percent of Mexico’s soil is already considered too dry to cultivate crops. The area under corn cultivation in Tehuacan decreased 18 percent to about 40,000 hectares between 2015 and last year, shows a Reuters news agency calculation …

New research warns severe climate-related droughts could threaten 60% of global wheat crop by 2100
5 years, 3 months ago

New research warns severe climate-related droughts could threaten 60% of global wheat crop by 2100

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Underscoring the necessity of aggressive action to combat human-caused global warming, research published Wednesday warns that the majority of the world's wheat fields are at risk of enduring "severe, prolonged, and near-simultaneous droughts" by the end of the century — raising serious concerns about future food insecurity and political instability. "But if multiple …

Droughts to affect 60% of wheat-producing areas by 2100: Study
5 years, 3 months ago

Droughts to affect 60% of wheat-producing areas by 2100: Study

India Today  

Up to 60 percent of wheat-growing areas around the world may see simultaneous, severe and prolonged droughts by the end of the century, according to a study. Researchers, including those from the University of Arkansas, US, said that even if the global average temperature is held within two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels -- which is the target of the …

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”. …

Producing coarse grains can help mitigate climate change effects on food supply
5 years, 6 months ago

Producing coarse grains can help mitigate climate change effects on food supply

Firstpost  

As compared to rice, alternative grains are less sensitive to climate variability and their yields are not as affected. A new study has found that while almost all grain crops are sensitive to these changes, adding more coarse grains or millets in crop production mix may help make food supply withstand vagaries of climate change. The analysis revealed that compared …

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 …

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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