Carbon Transient has analyzed international media studies to establish the place and the way excessive climate occasions have destroyed crops over the previous two years. In How Excessive Climate is Destroying Crops Across the World, Carbon Transient has mapped this evaluation, highlighting 100 cases of crops being misplaced to warmth, drought, floods, and different excessive climate occasions in 2023-24.
The colours of the 100 markers on the map point out the kind of excessive climate occasion answerable for the destruction. Some markers are multi-colored, representing “compound” occasions the place crops have been affected by a couple of excessive situation – for instance, frost and drought impacting grain yields in South Australia.
With solely 100 information factors, the Carbon Transient evaluation is probably going too restricted to attract definitive conclusions about how completely different excessive local weather occasions are affecting crops in varied areas. Nevertheless, the map successfully illustrates the rising challenges confronted by the agricultural sector attributable to local weather change and international warming. As local weather change intensifies, agriculture worldwide faces mounting threats, and the Carbon Transient map underscores the pressing want for adaptation methods to make sure meals safety.
