Climate Change and Crop Nutrition

Climate Stress Is Changing What’s in Our Food — Not Just How Much We Grow

Planting seasons are changing rapidly, but stakeholders seldom connect the dots between climate change and crop nutrition. The focus is more often on maintaining or improving the year-on-year yield of each cultivated hectare. So far, the harvest volume is good on paper; it somehow becomes acceptable to sweep the nutritional decline under the carpet.  In…

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The hidden cost of climate change

How Climate Change Is Quietly Reducing the Nutritional Value of Our Food

More scientific studies are reiterating the climate change crop nutrition relationship. Many of these studies have found that the increasing exposure of food crops to atmospheric pollution is leading to a decline in the nutritional profile of some staples. For example, a team of UK researchers found that growing rice or wheat with elevated concentrations…

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