Climate change is reducing agricultural productivity
Technology is improving productivity, but climate is slowing it down.
Researchers have quantified for the first time the impact of climate change on global agricultural productivity, and it’s bad: the sector is 21% down from where it could have been without the growing emissions. That’s the equivalent of losing about seven years of farm productivity increases since the 1960s, the researchers estimated.
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Enhancing agricultural productivity is vital not just for feeding the world, but also for lifting global living standards. Investments in agricultural research have boosted agricultural productivity in the past decades in several ways, but this has been distributed unequally across the world with growing signs that progress is slowing down in certain regions.
Environmental News Network - UMD Collaborates to Quantify How Climate Change Has Slowed Agricultural Productivity Growth Worldwide
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