Climate change threatens a third of global harvests

Last week another horrendous scientific study made a brief appearance in the news: climate change threatens a third of the world’s food production.

The study is from Finland, where scientists have developed a concept called ‘safe climactic space’. This is a measure of how dry a place is, its projected rainfall and temperature increase. Most global agriculture and livestock farming happens inside this safe space, as you’d expect. As global temperatures rise, this space begins to shrink.

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