Extreme weather is disrupting Indian agriculture, forcing farmers to adapt through crop diversification, technology, and ...
Food security, climate change, global health: Agriculture is where the world’s most serious challenges collide.
Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. She collaborated with ...
Climate change caused drought and flooding is damaging Nigeria’s staple foods, maize, cassava, millet and yam, smallholder ...
The study found that climate change is a serious threat to food crop production. Drought was the most severe risk, particularly affecting maize and cassava. Flooding was the second major threat. It ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern ...
The effects of climate change can have extensive impacts on agriculture and farmers. Growing seasons have been getting longer with more extreme temperatures. Precipitation patterns have been changing, ...
The hidden story of 2011 has been the record-breaking rise in global food prices. Global corn prices doubled between April 2010 and April 2011, while wheat prices are up some 60 to 80%. Exactly why ...
Climate change primarily consists of two natural phenomena, trend rise in average temperature and uncertain rainfall. Rising concentration of mainly three gases, called Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), carbon ...
Erin McGuire spent years cultivating fruits and vegetables like onions, peppers and tomatoes as a scientist and later director of a lab at the University of California-Davis. She collaborated with ...