The Global Corn Crop is Vulnerable to the Effects of Climate Change – PRI
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Article Synopsis – According to a new study, climate change will not only increase the risk of food shocks from world corn production, but these crop failures could occur simultaneously. Corn is the most produced and traded crop in the world by volume. “With two degrees of warming, corn yields would decline by 20 to 40 percent in the main growing regions on Earth; a four-degree-warmer world would see 40 to 60 percent yield declines”. In a four-degree-warmer world, the probability that the four main corn-growing regions- the US, China, Ukraine, Argentina and Brazil- would simultaneously have a massive crop failure is 86 percent. To read the actual article click here.