As climate change continues to wreak havoc on South Africa’s agricultural landscape, the future of food security hangs in the balance. With predictions indicating a potential 50% decline in ...
2025 is here, and to no one’s surprise, climate change continues to worsen with few signs of progress on the horizon. The effects are more apparent than ever, with rising temperatures and extreme ...
“My concern is that climate change is impacting agriculture and could well disrupt supply chains,” wrote Modern Farmer reader Taera Shuldberg. Shuldberg’s town of Sierra Vista, Arizona is working on a ...
Nepal, March 8 -- Farmers in the Everest region no longer produce traditionally grown crops like wheat, barley, and millet as they once did. They attribute the decline in farming to irregular weather ...
The Earth is heating up. The effects of human-caused global climate change are becoming more and more apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, shifts in rainfall patterns ...
As climate change accelerates, scientists are sounding the alarm about its potentially devastating impact on the world's food supply. Researchers warn that without rapid changes to how we develop ...
Unpredictable weather patterns – sometimes too dry, sometimes too wet – are collaborating with heat and crop pests to limit yields of key commodities. Can these conditions be mitigated? When it comes ...
Thanks to our now-globalized food system, many of us in the Western world take for granted that we can stroll into a supermarket and purchase anything from asparagus to cinnamon rolls to ...
Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...
A new study finds that climate change is affecting the distribution and spread of food-borne diseases. An increase in the number and severity of heatwaves, droughts, and heavy precipitation events are ...