April 13, 2012
teleological: Rapid Climate Change Threatens World’s Rice Bowl As Asia’s monsoon season begins, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists warn that rapid climate change and intensified droughts and floods could devastate Southeast Asia’s global dominance in rice production, posing a significant threat to millions of people across the region and affecting global food security. Last year’s record flooding in Thailand and Southeast Asia was preceded by a record drought in 2010. These and many other extreme weather events have hammered global food prices, stretching their impact beyond the immediate personal and ecological tragedies. Climate change in South and Southeast Asia is expected to reduce agriculture productivity by as much as 50 percent in the next three decades, with a dramatic impact on stability and livelihoods. South and Southeast Asia is home to more than one-third of the world’s population and half of the world’s poor and malnourished. Agriculture is the backbone of most economies in the region, and such plunging yields would shake countries to the core. Read more.

teleological:

Rapid Climate Change Threatens World’s Rice Bowl

As Asia’s monsoon season begins, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists warn that rapid climate change and intensified droughts and floods could devastate Southeast Asia’s global dominance in rice production, posing a significant threat to millions of people across the region and affecting global food security.

Last year’s record flooding in Thailand and Southeast Asia was preceded by a record drought in 2010. These and many other extreme weather events have hammered global food prices, stretching their impact beyond the immediate personal and ecological tragedies. Climate change in South and Southeast Asia is expected to reduce agriculture productivity by as much as 50 percent in the next three decades, with a dramatic impact on stability and livelihoods.

South and Southeast Asia is home to more than one-third of the world’s population and half of the world’s poor and malnourished. Agriculture is the backbone of most economies in the region, and such plunging yields would shake countries to the core.

Read more.

(via mothernaturenetwork)

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