In the long list of potential problems from global warming, the risks to world agriculture stand out as among the most important. Yet there has been a tendency in the climate economics literature in ...

We found if the Earth warms by more than 3°C by the end of the century, the estimated harm to the global economy jumped from ...

Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme ...

Researchers say it’s particularly worrisome for agriculture, and hope their work will strengthen efforts to reduce water ...

Up to half of global cropland at risk in low-latitude countries as temperatures rise Food crop diversity will also decline in these regions, study ...

Decades of unsustainable agriculture have depleted soils worldwide and accelerated both global warming and species loss, according to the United Nations (UN) official spearheading efforts to ...

Agriculture produces a substantial amount of greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute greatly to global warming and climate change. Stable and radioisotopes can be used to develop technology ...

And global warming increases the threat of desertification, especially on severely degraded agricultural lands. The chance of a crop failure that could detrimentally affect nutrition on a wide ...

This year will be pivotal for the sustainability of food and agriculture as countries submit their new climate strategies ...

The frequency and duration of heatwaves have seen a marked increase due to global warming. These prolonged periods of extreme ...