Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Climate change, land use change and biodiversity loss are combining to drive an increase in agricultural pests and expansion of their ranges with concerning implications for future global food security. In a recent paper published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, an international team led by researchers at China’s Hebei University assessed that 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) warming over preindustrial levels could lead to increas…