With extreme weather raging, agricultural impacts continue to mount, threatening food security, inflation and produce shortages in many regions-
1/x - Fruit disappearing from Italian orchards due to extreme weather euronews.com/green/2023/08/…
2/x
Oregon cherry growers seek emergency aid after climate change ruined this year's harvest: 'It all fell apart'
“Never have I had a time where I had to walk away from so many cherries and it’s really just devastating”
kgw.com/article/life/f…
3/x
China 'lurching between stifling, unrelenting heat & heavy, monsoonal rainfall' () threatening national food security () & in the north, warnings of crop & animal diseases as floodwaters retreat nbcnews.com/news/world/chi…
asiatimes.com/2023/08/climat…
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
4/x
In Canada- Saskatchewan farmers ‘looking to stop the bleeding’, suffering the cumulative effect of multiple years of drought and concerned with the “omnipresent danger” of fire leaderpost.com/news/saskatche…
leaderpost.com/news/saskatche…
5/x
In northern Canada- Wildfire smoke, climate change affecting N.W.T. berry pickers and their harvest including Indigenous peoples and businesses cbc.ca/news/canada/no…
6/x
Kansas-‘First Scorched, Then Soaked', concerning farmers “It really doesn’t get any crazier than right here, right now”
& yet “temperatures are expected to rise while rainfall decreases. Both of these changes are detrimental to wheat crops.” nytimes.com/2023/08/09/us/…
7/x
In Greece- ‘Heatwaves and wildfires heap misery on farmers’ – ‘Scenes like dried-up rivers, low water levels in lakes, and less irrigated farms are becoming more and more common…Scientists are sounding the alarm’
newseu.cgtn.com/news/2023-08-1…
8/x
The above are recent examples, but they are just part of a broader near continuous stream of extremes - heat, flooding, whiplash between the two -
& very credible voices are increasingly raising alarm at the near term risks
9/x
“Climate change is wreaking havoc on food production across the world, with farmers in Southern Europe literally fighting fires while farmers here are despairing as they now must spend thousands of pounds to dry sodden grain. "
-@Minette_Batters
nfuonline.com/updates-and-in…
10/x
'Persistent drought across Afghanistan is taking its toll on farmers, its economy - a third of which is generated by agriculture - and food security.'
'as temperatures rise, precipitation falls' and less snow means lower summer riverflows
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…
11/x
'Drought and dropping water levels in Spain hit stonefruit and mangoes and spark calls for a plan for food in face of climate change.'
-'Spanish growers are likely to have lost “millions of kilos” of stonefruit this year as an ongoing drought'
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/whiplash-…
12/x
‘China’s farmers are facing an earlier than expected assault on their crops this year as extreme weather accelerates the spread and growth of destructive diseases & pests such as the dreaded fall armyworm.
At risk are key crops including corn & rice’
bnnbloomberg.ca/china-faces-ea…
13/x
‘Orange juice prices to surge as US crops ravaged by disease and climate
Extreme weather fuelled by climate crisis and bacterial disease have led to ‘dramatic decline’ in orange crops'
theguardian.com/environment/20…
14/x
Another warning from a food scientist –
“The looming spectre of climate change will mean we will continue face ongoing issues with supply, price and safety of many imported foods. It is surely time that our government opens its eyes”
15/x
Jordan-
‘Agriculture sector withers’ as an ‘unprecedented heatwave’ continues
sunburn, scorching and wilting of crops
exhaustion, reduced feed intake, dehydration, and death of animals
jordantimes.com/news/local/agr…
16/x
Israel- tens of thousands of chickens die in a heatwave
"God help [me], I don't have the strength anymore. I'm broke."
"The need to move to upgraded chicken coops becomes more acute every year in light of global warming”
jpost.com/environment-an…
17/x
Tasmania-
“CLIMATE CHANGE PUSHES FARM INSURANCE THROUGH THE ROOF”
“We’ve dealt with major floods in 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2021 but nothing could have prepared us for February 2022.”
tasmaniantimes.com/2023/08/climat…
18/x
UK-
Recent spells of extreme weather "heartbreaking" for farmers
“Climate change is definitely happening. We seem to get long periods where we get 2 months of sunshine or 2 months of rain. We can't seem to get the natural flow of weather anymore."
itv.com/news/westcount…
19/x
'A heatwave in Morocco topping 50°C is threatening Britain’s supply of fresh fruit & veg.
Initial reports indicate “substantial damage” to crops such as tomatoes, which account for around half of Moroccan fresh produce exports'
#food #ClimateCrisis
thegrocer.co.uk/fresh/uk-fruit…
20/x
'Climate haven no more? Floods & fires hit farmers in east Canada'
"We had the fire, & we were in a drought, & now it has not stopped raining. And so we're losing crops to fungal and bacterial diseases – they are literally drowning"
#food #farming
devdiscourse.com/article/headli…
21/x
'There is a crisis brewing in the olive oil industry'
'The scorching temperatures that have swept southern Europe' are 'very bad news for olive trees'
Bulk prices have doubled since last year
"the concerns are significant... for a lot of crops"
cbsnews.com/miami/news/oli…
22/x
'Another week of extreme weather in India has added to concerns about climate change, food supplies and persistent inflation'
'apart from the impact on crops, dozens of farmers have died and thousands have lost their homes'
#food #India #farming
asia.nikkei.com/Economy/India-…
23/x
'Intensive heatwaves and extreme weather that gripped Italy for most of this year will cost Italian farmers at least 6 billion euros (6.5 billion U.S. dollars)...
wheat production was down by 10%, wine grapes by 14%, pears by 63%, and honey by 70%'
news-journal.com/extreme-weathe…
24/x
'wildfires pose a significant threat to British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, a region that contributes a remarkable 25% to the province’s total agricultural output... replacing trees in the event of damage can take several years'
-@FoodProfessor
torontosun.com/opinion/column…
25/x
Turkey-
'Agricultural production dropped by climate change'
'food prices have increased by 54% annually in Türkiye, a rise which is continuing ... since August 2020'
"The crops deteriorated due to excessive rainfall and extreme heat"
english.news.cn/20230821/8c4ca…
26/x
'Vermont farmers say they need more gov't help as climate change causes more extreme weather'
'over 200 farms and 17,000 acres of farmland were affected by the flood... & over 70 fruit producers are still working to recover from a devastating frost'
vermontpublic.org/local-news/202…
27/x
Spain-
'The effects of drought in the agricultural sector are spreading to more & more crops, increasing losses for farmers, influencing food industries, & intensifying price increases...Spain faces a challenging scenario with low cereal production'
agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieuws…
28/x
Bangladesh-
Flooding and more impacting farms-
“These are extreme weather events caused by climate change”
“Weather has become erratic”
“There is no doubt that we are heading toward dangerous times."
ucanews.com/news/banglades…
29/x
USA-
'From coast to coast, all summer long, cattle producers across the southern United States have been battling persistently high temperatures in the triple digits (some of the hottest ever recorded), attempting to protect their herds'
rfdtv.com/battling-natur…
30/x
Ireland-
A warning on food inflation:
'One emerging consequence of climate change is ‘heatflation’, which refers to increased food prices and smaller harvests due to an increasing number of heatwaves and associated droughts across Europe'
competitiveness.ie/news-events/20…
31/x
JP Morgan, a financial services firm with assets of $𝟮.𝟲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 and operations worldwide acknowledges that "food insecurity is the new normal",
Reinforcing that climate change is 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 bad enough that it is driving inflation.
bnnbloomberg.ca/a-global-stock…
32/x
New Zealand-
'Huge insurance cost increases hit farmers' 'after a number of very high-cost adverse weather events in the past year' including three insurance industry-classified “catastrophic events”
#ClimateEmergency #NewZealand #food #insurance
farmersweekly.co.nz/markets/huge-i…
33/x
India export bans ramping up - including "more curbs on shipments of rice... a move by the top exporter that’s likely to further squeeze global supplies of the grain.... as volatile weather across the world threaten supplies of grains & oilseeds"
bnnbloomberg.ca/india-tightens…
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India (contd)-
"Food prices have surged largely because of erratic weather. Heavy rains in many parts of the country have submerged farmland... Elsewhere, heat has withered crops... Rainfall this month is set to be the lowest in more than a century."
economist.com/graphic-detail…
35/x
B.C., Canada-
“It’s been challenging. We’ve had back-to-back years of floods, fires and heat domes. It’s affected the whole ag industry in B.C.”
“I think it’s all really exacerbated by climate change. And I’m very concerned about our future”
#food
vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
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