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-Climate Change and Food Production (MotherJohns.com) "A team of scientists from Canada and the United Kingdom compiled the first-ever global tally of how weather disasters over the past 50 years cut into production of staple cereals. After merging a database of global weather records with a UN record of country-level crop production, the researchers found that, as a rule of thumb, droughts and heat waves typically cut a country's cereal production by 10 percent. That basically accords with predictions from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's predictions for agricultural vulnerability in the future."
"But unexpectedly, the researchers also found that the impacts were 8 to 11 percent more severe in developed countries than in developing ones." 01-16
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