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Wheat affected by drought conditions in Bremen, Germany in May 2025. Credit: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: 3BB9R98.

Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change

Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according to a new study.  ... Read More

Food and farming | May 21. 2025.
Farmers ploughs land with tractors in Hebei province, China.

Rising emissions from farm equipment could ‘hinder’ China’s net-zero goals

Rapidly rising emissions from China’s agricultural machinery could “hinder” the country’s push to net-zero, according to new research. The... Read More

Food and farming | May 14. 2025.
Soybean pod.

‘One-third’ of 2012 soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change

Climate change was responsible for just over one-third of the simultaneous soya bean crop failures across Argentina, Brazil and the US in 2012, accor... Read More

Food and farming | Mar 20. 2025.
Banana plantation in the rural municipality of Araçuaí, Brazil.

Major banana exporters could face ‘60% drop’ in growing area due to warming

Large-scale banana plantations in Latin America and the Caribbean could face a “dramatic” reduction in “suitable” growing area by 2080 due to... Read More

Food and farming | Mar 6. 2025.
Pineapple harvester, Mali.

Half of global croplands could see a drop in suitable crops at 2C of warming

More than half of global cropland areas could see a decline in the number of suitable crops under a warming scenario of 2C, new research finds. ... Read More

Food and farming | Mar 4. 2025.
Interactive: Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world

Extreme weather can harm food production in many different ways. Drought leaving rice fields cracked and dry. Heavy rainfall flooding orange groves. ... Read More

Food and farming | Feb 14. 2025.
Flooded rice fields in Laos. Credit: Max Dominik Daiber / Alamy Stock Photo. Image ID: JJDTJK.

IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate

“Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those systems at risk, according to a majo... Read More

Food and farming | Dec 17. 2024.
A flooded field in Oxfordshire, UK in November 2024.

Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain

English farmers received tens of millions of pounds more in flood-relief funding in 2024 than in any year over the past decade, following intense rai... Read More

Food and farming | Dec 12. 2024.
Stack of beef burgers on a grill. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo

Reducing ‘overconsumption’ of meat and dairy could cut one-sixth of food emissions

A global shift towards a diet that reduces “overconsumption” in meat and dairy products could cut 17% of global food emissions annually, new rese... Read More

Food and farming | Sep 5. 2024.
Woman on a withered maize field.

Guest post: Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures

Extreme weather is one of the primary drivers of crop failures around the world. Crop failures – the total or near-total loss of a farm or regio... Read More

Food and farming | Aug 28. 2024.
Olive oil shelves at a supermarket.

Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world 

Global food prices have seen huge fluctuations in recent years, soaring to record highs in 2022 before dropping in 2023 and rising again slowly this ... Read More

Food and farming | Aug 23. 2024.
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