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 regions are affected simultaneously, it can affect global production and food prices, and lead to food insecurity." "Global warming is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of severe water scarcity events, which negatively affect rain-fed crops such as wheat," the study says. Referencing a key goal of the Paris climate accord, researchers warn that "even under the ambitious mitigation scenario aimed to stabilize global warming at 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels, the increase in the frequency and extent of adverse weather extremes and related shocks on the production side would be unprecedented."

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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 …

Food aid interventions can curb climate change-induced hardship. But should they do more?
1 month, 3 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 …

Joint climate action key to hunger-free world
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Joint climate action key to hunger-free world

China Daily  

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Climate change poses a serious threat to global food security. Rising mean temperatures and more frequent and severe extreme weather events could push hundreds of millions of additional people into hunger or leave them suffering undernutrition if the international community does not immediately implement effective corrective measures. Recent studies show that average crop yield in some African …

Famine Looms in Vulnerable Regions as Conflict and Climate Shocks Aggravate Food Insecurity
2 months, 1 week ago

Famine Looms in Vulnerable Regions as Conflict and Climate Shocks Aggravate Food Insecurity

Associated Press  

Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable areas worldwide. The report warns that conflicts, economic instability, and climate shocks are driving alarming levels of acute food insecurity, with immediate, scaled-up intervention needed to prevent further deterioration in these already vulnerable regions.

UK food security hit by climate impacts at home and abroad, analysis warns
4 months, 3 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 …

If we are to lower food prices and support farmers, we need to restore land
7 months ago

If we are to lower food prices and support farmers, we need to restore land

Al Jazeera  

In recent years, people everywhere have endured soaring food prices, coupled with growing concerns for the wellbeing of those who produce food. This is one of the reasons why this year’s World Environment Day is calling for land protection and restoration to address land degradation, drought and desertification – and bring immediate social, economic and environmental net gains. Land degradation …

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

Southern Africa to experience cereal shortage
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Southern Africa to experience cereal shortage

China Daily  

FILE PHOTO: A wilted maize crop is seen in Mumijo in the Buhera district east of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, March 16, 2024. The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that Southern African countries will experience maize shortages due to the recent El Nino-linked drought that has decimated harvest prospects. The predicted production shortfall is expected to intensify households' food …

Food insecurity bites in countries overwhelmed by extreme weather
1 year ago

Food insecurity bites in countries overwhelmed by extreme weather

The Independent  

Limiting warming to 1.5C has repeatedly been hailed as “our north star” by Cop28 president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber in his interactions with the press. “We need more financial resources to tackle the food insecurity challenge, as well as other environmental problems, in our country,” says Mery Yaou, director of environment at Togo’s Ministry of Environment, in an interview with The …

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 …

This is how El Nino, a ‘silent killer’ could impact health, food and the economy
1 year, 4 months ago

This is how El Nino, a ‘silent killer’ could impact health, food and the economy

Live Mint  

The El Nino weather phenomenon is showing signs of intensifying, potentially leading to heightened temperatures and extreme weather events in a year already marked by their prevalence, according to experts. Health Concerns While it's complex to precisely quantify El Nino's role in extreme weather events like wildfires, heatwaves alone pose substantial health hazards. These nations face a potential "triple challenge" …

Climate change impacts health, gender equality, economic growth and food insecurity: Report
1 year, 5 months ago

Climate change impacts health, gender equality, economic growth and food insecurity: Report

The Hindu  

Climate change impacts various aspects of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals including health, education, poverty reduction, economic growth, gender equality, besides exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition, according to a report presented during the ongoing Think20 Summit in Mysuru. The report titled “Our Uncommon Future: Intersectionality of Climate Change and SDGs in the Global South” recognises the differentiated impact of climate …

Climate and violence hobble Nigeria’s push to rely on its own wheat after the hit from Russia’s war
1 year, 5 months ago

Climate and violence hobble Nigeria’s push to rely on its own wheat after the hit from Russia’s war

Associated Press  

ABUJA, Nigeria — Abubakar Salisu was terrified when he discovered arid sand in the middle of his farmland, rendering a broad strip unfit for crops. Wheat normally requires heat, but in the last three years, farmers in Nigeria’s far north, part of Africa’s Sahel region that largely produces the country’s homegrown food, have seen an “alarming” increase in heat — …

What this year’s El Niño means for wheat and global food supply
1 year, 5 months ago

What this year’s El Niño means for wheat and global food supply

Salon  

The World Meteorological Organization has declared the onset of the first El Niño event in seven years. Even a "moderate" El Niño may significantly affect crops grown in geographically concentrated regions — for example palm oil, which primarily comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. Impact on global food prices The following graph shows the correlation between El Niño events and global …

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, 8 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

UN: Climate shocks, war fuel multiple looming food crises
2 years, 7 months ago

UN: Climate shocks, war fuel multiple looming food crises

Associated Press  

ROME — Two U.N. food agencies issued stark warnings Monday about multiple, looming food crises on the planet, driven by climate “shocks” like drought and worsened by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine that have sent fuel and food prices soaring. WFP Executive Director David Beasley said besides hurting “the poorest of the poor” the …

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 …

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 …

West Africa Faces Historic Food Crisis Driven by Conflict, Price Surge
2 years, 9 months ago

West Africa Faces Historic Food Crisis Driven by Conflict, Price Surge

News 18  

West Africa is facing its worst food crisis on record driven by conflict, drought, and the impact of the war in Ukraine on food prices and availability, aid agencies said on Tuesday. Large swathes of West Africa, including parts of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, are facing Islamist insurgencies that have forced millions of people off their land. “What …

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse
2 years, 10 months ago

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Although Africa has contributed relatively …

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, …

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
3 years, 3 months ago

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The second part of the Groundswell report published Monday examined how the impacts of …

Climate change could displace 200 million people within their own countries by 2050
3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change could displace 200 million people within their own countries by 2050

LA Times  

A boy, a member of the semi-nomadic Samburu people, uses a stick to try to chase away a swarm of desert locusts in Kenya. Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development …

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 …

7 major impacts of rapid climate change on land, oceans and atmosphere
4 years, 9 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 …

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 …

Trump tweets climate change skeptic
5 years, 9 months ago

Trump tweets climate change skeptic

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump escalated his denial of global warming Tuesday, when he took to Twitter to quote a noted climate skeptic who claims that climate change is “fake science.” Trump cited the comments of Patrick Moore on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” program, which identified him as the co-founder of the activist group Greenpeace. ‘There is no climate …

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