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Sep 27 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
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"By the end of the 2022/23
crop year, the world's buffer
stocks of corn will be
enough for just 80 days'
worth of consumption"

Crops ruined by widespread drought in the US & Europe, flooding in Pakistan, incessant rains in India & more
reuters.com/markets/commod…
"Tight grain supplies reflect the impact of climate change on crop production as well as growing global demand for livestock that feed on corn, eating away at stockpiles"

& guess what?

The #ClimateCrisis is ramping up as our leaders pour fuel on the fire
reuters.com/markets/commod…
☝️All these warning signs at the same as we know models are likely highly conservative in predicting how #ClimateChange will impact global food production-

Our leaders are clueless or incompetent-

Please do what you can to wake them up!

3/x
 #ActNow
“More poor weather could further reduce global inventories, particularly if the current dry weather in South America continues”

"It's sort of a false hope that Ukraine is going to bridge the current gap in supply & demand"

4/x
 #Ukraine #food #inflation
reuters.com/markets/commod…
U🔥S🔥A🔥

“a combination of above average temperatures and below normal precipitation resulted in
widespread drought conditions this past growing season across much of the main agricultural
producing areas in the U.S.”

5/x
 #inflation #ClimateEmergency
dtnpf.com/agriculture/we…
Rajasthan, India-“Farmers across the state are a worried lot. Excess rainfall in July, drought-like conditions affecting crops... & now untimely excessive rainfall in several districts damaging ready-to-harvest crops have hit Rajasthan farmers hard”

6/x
 downtoearth.org.in/news/agricultu…
'Typhoon Noru has damaged swaths of farmland in the Philippines, posing further risks to food supply & inflation... 20 cyclones pass through the Philippines annually, incurring $10 billion in losses from climate-related hazards over a decade'

7/x
 #climate
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
'Parts of West & central Africa have been battered by floods...wiping out crops & risking worsening food insecurity'

"Thousands of farmlands have also been destroyed. The figures will rise”

"we can link these rains to climate change”

8/x
 #Nigeria
macaubusiness.com/heavy-floods-r…
Every major climate exacerbated disaster is now followed by longer term agricultural impacts,

A brutal one-two punch that often causes major challenges with food security for those already displaced by disaster

As in Pakistan-

9/x
 #PakistanFloods #food
And many will have forgotten now, but shortly before the floods, Pakistan was staring down incredible agricultural impacts from extreme heat-

10/x
 #Pakistan #food #farming #water

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Sep 30
This study needs to be brought in front of every politician making decisions on climate change mitigation

It should be headlined in every major media outlet

The implications are stunning

1/4
 #ClimateCrisis #foodsecurity #farming #agriculture #NEWS
bmj.com/content/378/bm…
What factors are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 included in most crop models?

⚠️Among many other things
-declines in pollinating insects
-nutrient reductions in staple crops
-changes in air quality
-land degradation and salinisation
-even *increasing extreme weather*

2/4
 bmj.com/content/378/bm…
⚠️⚠️"Importantly, most of the excluded variables ...imply a modest to severe negative impact on agricultural production"

3/4
 bmj.com/content/378/bm…
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Sep 11
2022 not 2050!

"People were fleeing to higher, cooler ground. Subway stations were blacked out...buildings were darkened... important arteries for shipping & transportation became unnavigable...Chickens died or struggled to lay eggs"

1/4 #China
nytimes.com/2022/09/09/opi…
And now:

2/4
 #China #ClimateCrisis #food #water #energy
'According to data from NASA ... the North China Plain’s groundwater reserves are even more overdrawn than those of the Ogallala Aquifer under the Great Plains of the United States, one of the world’s most imperiled critical agricultural water sources'
3/4
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Sep 8
Heat stress already poses an "extreme risk" to agriculture in 20 countries, including agricultural giant India

But by 2045, 64 nations representing 71% of current global food production will be impacted

Including China, India, Brazil & the U.S.

#food
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
"I think what it reinforces is that, even though a lot of us are sort of sitting in sort of Western countries, where we might think we're a bit more insulated from some of these threats, actually we are not necessarily" 

#ClimateCrisis #food #farming
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
🧵Read this report, and do whatever you can to demand urgent #ClimateAction:

#ClimateCrisis #Food #farming #foodblog #health #diet #nutrition #NEWS #NEWS #NEWS 3/x
maplecroft.com/insights/analy…
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Sep 1
I tweet a great deal about climate change impacts on agriculture because it is clear that reducing emissions is the single most important need to ensure food system resilience, but ...

1/4
 #ClimateCrisis #food #farming #ClimateAction
Local food, community supported agriculture, gardening will all play critical roles going forward-

If you aren't already, do learn and pay attention to growing your own food, #permaculture, #savesoil, #regenerativeagriculture & related initiatives

2/4
 civileats.com/2022/09/01/how…
I have found these books (amongst many others) to be particularly helpful on #gardening-

chelseagreen.com/product/the-re…

newsociety.com/books/g/garden…

anything by Martin Crawford permaculturenews.org/2011/06/08/mar…

➡️Please share some of your favorite resources too!⬅️

3/4
#food #ClimateChange
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Aug 30
China-

"We should be harvesting fruits right now, but it's all gone, dead from the scorching sun."

"It's impossible to work out in the orchard, because the ground temperature is around 60° celsius" [140°F]

"It's too miserable to bear witness to."

#food
ndtv.com/world-news/chi…
'China is facing severe shortfalls in the autumn harvest of rice & wheat in the Yangtze basin...

In Sichuan province alone, 47,000 hectares have reportedly been lost, and another 433,000 hectares seared.

The problem, however, extends far beyond Sichuan'
nzherald.co.nz/world/extreme-…
'Parts of the European Union could face 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 of warmer and drier conditions as Europe weathers a major drought that has fueled forest fires, dried up rivers and devastated crops'

#ClimateCrisis #food #farming #health #nutrition
arkansasonline.com/news/2022/aug/…
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Aug 12
'Very scary': European agriculture hit hard by climate change and drought

⚠️It is *really*, absolutely scary. Please pay attention to this & get it on the radar if your broader community-

This is happening way too soon & only gets worse.

#ClimateCrisis
ca.news.yahoo.com/very-scary-eur…
Please share:

#ClimateCrisis #food #farming #yum #foodporn #yummy #breakfast #lunch #dinner #eating
The climate crisis is *already* impacting food supplies in wealthy countries- & look at what is being ignored in Somalia:

'Crops are failing while millions of livestock die, as the drought cripples the main source of income for 80% of the population...'
time.com/6205717/somali…
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