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Climate Change Will Drive Up Food Prices

Benji Jerew — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:49:21 +0000

The agricultural industry is notoriously slow to react to changing conditions, which leads some researchers to believe that climate change will inevitably lead to higher food prices in the future. According to research done by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, climate change will likely contribute to increasing prices for basic foodstuffs in the […]

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Software Simulates Consequences of Changing Climate and Crop Rotation On Food Production

Mila Luleva — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:51:24 +0000

As climate change becomes more and more apparent and temperatures rise much faster than ever, large areas that were once used for agriculture are now being a subject to extreme desertification and loss of soil nutrients, leading to inevitable abandonment. At the same time, population rise and the increasing demand for food force farmers to […]

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Climate-Induced Soil Nutrient Decrease to Threaten Global Food Production, Study

Mila Luleva — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:10:14 +0000

Nutrients in soils are one of the most essential components that determine land productivity and consequently availability of food resources. The balance between these components, or more precisely the presence of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in sufficient quantities, is strongly determined by availability of water. A team of scientists, led by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo from Universidad […]

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