The article discusses the alarming trend of global food production being concentrated in a few regions and how climate change threatens this productivity. Countries like Ukraine and Russia contribute significantly to the world's wheat and barley exports, but climate challenges, including extreme weather events and changing rainfall patterns, are forecasted to cause substantial declines in staple crop yields by 11.2% by century's end. Major food-producing areas, like the US Midwest, face the highest risks, making feeding the growing global population increasingly difficult.
Under a moderate greenhouse gas emissions scenario, six key staple crops will see an 11.2 percent decline by the end of the century compared to a world without warming.
Extreme weather has already begun to eat into harvests this year: Flooding has destroyed rice in Tajikistan, cucumbers in Spain, and bananas in Australia.
It's not a mystery that climate change will affect our food production. That's the most weather-exposed sector in the economy.
The largest drops aren't occurring in the poorer, more marginal farmlands, but in places that are already major food producers.
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