Thread by @OliverStuenkel

Amazing article on how Russia stands to benefit from climate change, turning it into an agricultural powerhouse. Since the year 2000, the country's agricultural exports have multiplied sixteen times.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Since 2015, Russia’s wheat exports have jumped 100 percent, to about 44 million tons, surpassing those of the United States and Europe. Russia is now the largest wheat exporter in the world, responsible for nearly a quarter of the global market.

Crop yields from Texas to Nebraska could fall by up to 90% by as soon as 2040 as the ideal growing region moves toward the Canadian border.

Marshall Burke projects that over the next 80 years, per capita G.D.P. in the United States will drop by 36 percent compared to what it would be in a nonwarming world, even as per capita G.D.P. in Russia will quadruple.

Russia needs so much labor in the east to work in agriculture, a Putin advisor says, that the government has even contemplated flying workers in from India: “We think about the lower hundreds of thousands.”

In 2018 more than 900,000tons of soybeans were exported from the Eastern Russia. Soon, the region cld harvest 2million tons of soybeans from 3.7million acres of farmed land. Chinese investors are building a soy-processing plant near Vladivostok that would handle 240,000 tons/year