Recent study is the first to analyze on a large scale the relationship between food insecurity among smallholder farms in Africa and Asia, rainfall patterns, and a range of interventions
The finding is based on the panel's most severe potential climate change—and resulting increased sea surface temperature—scenario and is predicted at an 80 percent confidence level
The first major study of climate change's projected impacts on coffee says that global warming could reduce coffee growing areas in Latin America by as much as 88 percent by 2050