Climate Change Cuts Global Crop Yields by 21%, Rabobank Finds
Rabobank reports that global crop productivity is now 21% lower than it would have been without climate change, erasing over seven years of agricultural gains. Corn in Europe, cocoa in Africa, and coffee in South America are among the commodities suffering from adverse growing conditions. The bank calls climate change an existential threat to food production.
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