Extreme weather can harm food production in many different ways. Drought leaving rice fields cracked and dry. Heavy rainfall flooding orange groves. Tropical cyclones tearing down banana plants and coconut trees.
Carbon Brief has analysed global media coverage over the past two years to identify reporting on extreme weather events damaging crops.
Various impacts were recorded – ranging from floods ruining fields of corn in Tanzania, through to drought and heat destroying coffee in Vietnam and withering the “famed” Cambodian Kampot pepper.
Carbon Brief has used the events found within the media analysis to create the map below, which shows 100 cases of crops being destroyed by heat, drought, floods and other extremes in 2023-24.
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https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-extreme-weather-is-destroying-crops-around-the-world/
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