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Nov 21, 2013

The Heat Is On for Farmers - Wall Street Journal


Innovation needs to now move out of the laboratory and into the fields.

CGIAR Climate's insight:
"In the last decade, food prices have been highly erratic and we have never seen such instability before," says Bruce Campbell, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. "There are a number of causes, but an important one relates to the weather, where drought or heat hits a major food-producing region of the world.
"I think the extremes we have seen in the last few years are here to stay," he warns.