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Asian News International: A new study has shown that large-scale crop failures like the one that caused the recent Russian wheat crisis are likely to become more common under climate change due to an increased frequency of extreme weather events. However, according to the research by the University of Leeds, the Met Office Hadley Centre and University of Exeter, improved farming and the development of new crops could mitigate the worst effects of these events on agriculture. The unpredictability of the ......
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Large-scale crop failures to increase under climate change, finds study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 8th, 2010
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