Climate impact on crops will hit poorest
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Climate impact on crops
will hit poorest
Global food production may need to rise by more than 100 per cent to deal with climate change’s effects on crops in the most vulnerable regions.
By Tim Radford
LONDON, 27 September, 2016 – More than half of all the world’s maize crops and around a third of all wheat and rice will be grown in regions vulnerable to climate change in the next 50 to 100 years, according to new research.
At the same time, the world’s population will grow to 9 billion, and global food production will need to rise by from 60% to 110% by 2050 to keep up with demand.
Such changes will inevitably hit the poorest nations hardest, and will put at hazard the planet’s remaining wilderness areas and the surviving wild plants and animals that keep ecosystems stable.