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Interactive: Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Extreme weather can harm food production in many different ways. Drought leaving rice fields cracked and dry. Heavy rainfall flooding orange groves. ... Read More

Food and farming | Feb 14. 2025.
Flooded rice fields in Laos. Credit: Max Dominik Daiber / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: JJDTJK.

IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate

“Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those systems at risk, according to a majo... Read More

Food and farming | Dec 17. 2024.
A flooded field in Oxfordshire, UK in November 2024.

Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain

English farmers received tens of millions of pounds more in flood-relief funding in 2024 than in any year over the past decade, following intense rai... Read More

Food and farming | Dec 12. 2024.
Stack of beef burgers on a grill. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo

Reducing ‘overconsumption’ of meat and dairy could cut one-sixth of food emissions

A global shift towards a diet that reduces “overconsumption” in meat and dairy products could cut 17% of global food emissions annually, new rese... Read More

Food and farming | Sep 5. 2024.
Woman on a withered maize field.

Guest post: Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures

Extreme weather is one of the primary drivers of crop failures around the world. Crop failures – the total or near-total loss of a farm or regio... Read More

Food and farming | Aug 28. 2024.
Olive oil shelves at a supermarket.

Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world 

Global food prices have seen huge fluctuations in recent years, soaring to record highs in 2022 before dropping in 2023 and rising again slowly this ... Read More

Food and farming | Aug 23. 2024.
A herd of Danish cows grazing on a pasture.

Q&A: How Denmark plans to tax agriculture emissions to meet climate goals

Denmark is on its way to introducing a world-first tax on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in 2030.  Central to the proposals – an... Read More

EU policy | Jul 9. 2024.
Flooded fields in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in December 2023.

Q&A: The state of the UK’s ‘food security’ in a fast-warming world

Promises to improve the UK’s food security feature in the election manifestos that have been published ahead of the vote on 4 July. The Conserva... Read More

Food and farming | Jun 28. 2024.
A fruit seller sleeps in his fruit shop in Kolkata, India.

Experts: What is causing food prices to spike around the world?

Spiking food prices have made headlines around the world this year, from eggs in the US to vegetables in India. The UN Food and Agriculture Organi... Read More

Food and farming | Jun 19. 2024.
A tractor-drawn applicator applies nitrogen granule fertiliser to a field of corn.

Agriculture ‘major driver’ of rise in nitrous oxide emissions over past 40 years

Nitrogen fertilisers, manure and other agricultural sources drove almost three-quarters of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions in recent years. T... Read More

Food and farming | Jun 11. 2024.
People throw the rotted watermelon in the Buriganga River, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Image ID: FX9939

Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss

More consistent refrigeration of foods as they move from one part of the supply chain to another could cut almost 2bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissi... Read More

Food and farming | Jun 5. 2024.
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