Sonja Vermeulen: Fact-checking Food Production in the Alien World of Climate Change
CGIAR Climate's insight:
This unsettling insight is among the “Big Facts” assembled by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS). The project is an effort to provide objective, accessible, and credible scientific insights about how the rapid accumulation of carbon and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is likely to alter growing conditions and affect output in a sector that accounts for over 60% of export earnings across Africa, and more than 10% of GDP in China and India, which together are home to more than a third of the world’s people. The future of agriculture is particularly important to the approximately 500 million people who rely on small-scale farming, livestock keeping and fisheries for their livelihoods.