World Food: Global Warming Puts Rice Harvests at a Much Higher Risk than Previously Assumed
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In 1995, dictator Suharto launched the Mega Rice Project: turning a million hectares of peatland into central Kalimantan into rice barns. Three decades later, this pharaonic site produced zero harvest, dug 4,600 km of useless canals, and transformed an entire region into a climate powder plant. The consequences: carbon emissions equivalent to 40% of global fossil emissions. More
Extreme heat can hit rice in a sensitive phase – and previous models underestimate the effect of global warming. This could have consequences for the availability of the staple foodReis is an important staple food for billions of people worldwide – and according to a recent study probably more severely affected by the climate crisis than previously assumed. Already with a global warming of one degree a decrease in rice yields of 8.1 percent is t…
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