Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite out of Our Food Supply

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Climate Change Is Taking a Big Bite out of Our Food Supply
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This week’s startling United Nations IPCC report suggests the situation is worse than previously thought, and war in Ukraine will only compound the problem.

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And they estimate that these crops’ yields will fall an additional 10 to 25 percent for each degree of warming above the current 1.1 degrees. In West Africa, heat and rainfall extremes “intensified by human-induced warming” have already cut yields of millet and sorghum—crucial foodstuffs in the region—by at least 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

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