Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change – new research
Climate change, and specifically rising temperatures, may cause food prices to increase by 3.2% per year, according to a new study by researchers in Germany.
Tag: Climate change and global warming
Climate-friendly beef? Argentina’s new ‘carbon-neutral’ certification could help reduce livestock emissions – if it’s done right
In Argentina, where beef is a symbol of national pride, a government-led partnership has started certifying certain livestock as carbon neutral.
Climate change: alarming report predicts 30% drop in crop revenue, 50 million without water
African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming is not limited to below 2°C, a new study by the Center for Global Development has found.
Heat stress is rising in southern Africa – climate experts show where and when it’s worst
Those working outdoors, like farm and construction workers, are especially vulnerable. How to adapt to and cope with heat stress while working outdoors during the day-time?
African farmers and agribusinesses need fair access to markets in face of climate change
Southern and Eastern Africa face the twin challenges of growing agricultural production to meet food demand while adapting to extreme weather.
Westfalia Fruit achieves Carbon Measured certification from the Carbon Trust
After engaging with the global experts on climate change, the Carbon Trust, Westfalia Fruit is ensuring compliance with best practice for carbon emissions.
Climate crisis cannot be tackled without shift away from damaging land use, major report warns
The way we currently use land is both a major contributor to climate change and placing unsustainable demands on the land systems on which humans and nature depend, according to an authoritative new report […]
Climate report: a response on Africa
Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report detailing progress and pathways to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Livestock: how to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-07-06 In Blog Allan Savory, thinking out-of-the-box, promotes livestock as the answer to desertification and climate change. “There is only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable: to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and to mimic nature”. It […]
Climate change and global warming
Introduction The 13th of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addresses climate. Several gases in the atmosphere trap energy from the sun – and warm the earth. Without this “greenhouse effect” life would not be possible on this planet. Our activities over the past two centuries though, especially the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, have […]