Climate change threatens the world’s wheat crop

Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund

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Climate change threatens the world’s wheat crop –

A new study says that an increase in global temperature of 1 degree Celsius would lead to a decline in wheat yields between 4.1 and 6.4 percent. Worldwide, farmers produce 700 million tons of wheat each year—a 5 percent reduction would equal about a 35-million-ton loss. Washington Post

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