CGIAR Report: Rising temperatures threaten a food crisis
A recent study reports that the geographical range of some agricultural crops — such as corn and beans — may be greatly reduced if temperatures continue to rise. While some farmers may be able to readjust what they grow, others may have to give up, producing a disaster.
Food prices have been rising, and climate change is likely to have a larger effect on food production in the future. These issues might be expected in southern Asia and Africa, but if temperatures keep rising, even places now reasonably secure such as China and Latin America could face a food crisis within two generations.
The study was published by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, a non-governmental research organization
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According to press reports, the effects are already showing in Mexico. A combination of heavy rains and high temperatures has stunted the mango crop for the second year in a row in the area around the Mexican state of Chiapas. The fruit being produced is inedible and the size of the crop has fallen 60 percent. Most of Mexico’s mango crop is eaten by consumers in the U.S.