Eco-Business

Feeding the 8.2 billion people who inhabit the planet depends on healthy soils.

Billions already face water stress, a figure set to rise sharply, as worsening droughts and deluges threaten global development goals.

UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are just some of the foods that became markedly more expensive after extreme weather events in recent years, according to new research.

Average global yields of six staple crops could fall by more than 11 per cent under a moderate warming scenario by the end of the century – even when accounting for how farmers could adapt to climate change, new research finds.

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