What Does Climate Change Mean for Agriculture? Less Food, and More Emissions

What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less food, and more emissions

New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet.  Two recent studies — one historical and the other forward-looking — examine how rising temperatures have made and could continue to make agricultural production less efficient, fundamentally reshaping the global food system as producers try to adapt to hotter growing seasons. The findings illuminate the bind that farmers and consumers find themselves in. Agricultural pro…

Three Barriers Blocking the Shift to a Healthy Global Food System: UN Report

🌍Despite its vital role in sustaining life, the global food system continues to undermine health, biodiversity, and climate goals, a new UN report warns. A new report released today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UK-based think tank Chatham House identifies three major barriers obstructing the transition to a sustainable global food system: the

Enhanced Rock Weathering: a climate gamechanger or a risky mirage? - DigitalFoodLab

As we are entering yet another hot summer (the current heatwave in Paris is no fun at all), sustainability efforts are becoming paradoxically contentious. If many food companies are reducing their efforts, that is not stopping tech and finance giants from investing in a new agriculture technology: Enhanced Rock Weathering or ERW. But is it the breakthrough we need, or a risky bet on uncertain chemistry? Food production is responsible for about …

Climate change and variability in Kenya: a review of impacts on agriculture and food security

Climate change and variability are a major threat to the agricultural sector globally. It is widely accepted that the changes in temperature, rainfall patt