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Our survival is at stake if our food system doesn't change

Jun 7, 2022

🚨Pay attention! 🚨 🧵'Climate change regularly destroys harvests, especially in key regions such as the southwestern United States, the source of most of North America’s fruits & vegetables. And food supplies are dwindling.' #ClimateCrisis #food

financialpost.com

Our survival is at stake if our food system doesn't change

Jun 7, 2022

🧵'The United Nations keeps track of the “supply-to-use” ratio, which is a measure of how much food we use compared with how much we produce. This ratio has been declining for years' #ClimateCrisis #food #inflation #NEWS

financialpost.com

Torrential rains kill dozens in southern China as climate change amplifies flood seasons | CNN

🧵Torrential rains in southern China 'as the country grapples with increasingly devastating flood seasons fueled by climate change... 96,160 hectares of crops have been destroyed -- heavy losses for a province that serves as a major rice-producing hub'

cnn.com

Torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 32 people, impacted millions of residents and caused billions of yuan in economic losses, as the country grapples with increasingly devastating...

Almost All of Portugal in Severe Drought After Hot, Dry May

🧵 Portugal- Combination of 𝟯°𝗖 (5.4°F) above average temperature & 𝟭𝟯% of normal rainfall has left 97% of the country in "severe drought", straining farmers. And still we're pumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. #ClimateCrisis #food

dtnpf.com

LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Almost the whole of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May, the country's weather service said Thursday.

Canada imports of Australian barley a drought-driven rarity - Grain Central

🧵 #ClimateCrisis extremes impacting global food markets: Canada importing ~100,000 tonnes of Australian barley to fill deficits left by last year’s unprecedented drought 'World markets have also felt the impact' of this drought following export cuts

graincentral.com

Australia is exporting bulk barley to Canada in one of the latest turns in an extraordinary period for the global barley trade...Read More

economictimes.indiatimes.com

🧵Climate change exacerbated exceptional heatwaves (dailypioneer.com/2022/columnist) now impacting even MORE crops in northern India Apple and orange production down 25-30%, 'adding to the accelerating food inflation' #ClimateCrisis #food #India

Heatwave hits J&K and Himachal apple, Maharashtra orange crops

While the apple crop in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir is estimated to be down by 25% from last year, orange production in Nagpur and Amaravati in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra is expected...

Grow-your-own seedling demand surging as fresh food prices bite

Jun 10, 2022

🧵 Australian crops hit by extreme weather include lettuce, baby spinach & cauliflower; tomatoes are "a new luxury item" (abc.net.au/news/2022-06-0) 'High fruit & vegetable prices are expected to continue for months' #ClimateCrisis #food #farming msn.com/en-au/news/aus

abc.net.au

As it becomes increasingly expensive to buy fresh fruit and vegetables, more people are looking to plant their own produce. But even that is beginning to get pricey.

Ghana’s Crop Production Continues to be Devastated by Climate Change

Jun 13, 2022

🧵Ghana- 'already experiencing climate change impacts that include unpredictable rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, and the greater frequency of extreme weather events including floods' that has significantly weakened crop production #ClimateCrisis

cnbcafrica.com

Ghana, like many developing countries in the tropical zone of West Africa, is already experiencing climate change impacts that include unpredictable rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, and the...

UPDATE 1-Italy wheat production seen down 15% on drought risks, farm

Jun 13, 2022

LONG 🧵 'Italian wheat production is expected to fall by 15% this year due to a drought that has cut yields across the country' Expected lower wheat crop in western Europe 'adds pressure to already strained global supply' #ClimateCrisis #food #now!

agriculture.com

(Adds details)MILAN, June 13 (Reuters) - Italian wheat production is expected to fall by 15% this year due to a drought that has cut yields across the country, agricultural lobby Coldiretti said on