Climate change has become one of the most pressing concerns around the world. Leaders and activists are working towards taking measures to curb carbon emissions and turn our ailing planet. The effects of climate change could be worse than we anticipated. According to an AFP report, the foods we take for granted may disappear altogether or become scarce due to the effects of climate change. Scientists say that it depends on the agricultural production of food or the method of cultivation of plants. Although selective breeding may have made crops more profitable, they have also become extremely sensitive to changing climatic conditions such as drought, heavy rains, etc.
“We lost genetic diversity during the history of domestication … hence the ability of elite crops to adapt further” Future — to climate change and other challenges — is limited,” Benjamin Killian told AFP. Killian is project lead for the Crop Wild Relatives Project at the Crop Trust. In addition, according to a study published in May, global warming risks shifted approx. A third of agricultural production has grown outside the ideal climate for cultivation.
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Thus, crops such as potatoes, rice and coffee can be adversely affected by climate change. The International Potato Center has predicted a 32% decline in potato and sweet potato harvests by 2060. Similarly, estimates suggest that coffee growers will lose half of the adapted land by 2050. For example, rice is also the world’s most important staple. Food crops But contributes to global warming in a big way. Rice cultivation is further threatened by rising seas that can add too much salt to the water used to irrigate the rice.
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Scientists are trying to cultivate wild species of 28 priority crops such as wheat, rice, sweet potato, banana and apple. He believes that these old crops May have increased resistance to high resistance and ability to adapt to extreme weather conditions. However, harvesting these wild crops alone is not the answer to this impending food crisis.
according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)Rice, corn and wheat provide 60% of the world’s food energy intake. These are just three of the world’s 50,000 edible plants, many of which may be disappearing altogether or becoming increasingly rare. We may have to find a way to live without these staples, or approach our food in an entirely new way.
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