All of them unfortunatelly, but initially the high yielding varieties with high water use will be affected most. The crops that occupy the largest areas, like cotton, rice and wheat will also suffer the most. All areas around the equator will become too hot and dry to grow anything, affecting for example Coffee and Cocoa. Here in Australia, paddocks are already very much affected by ongoing drought, that means less and more expensive meat and wool. Climate change will also change areas that were previously too cold, like Siberia, into arable country for a while, until these areas also become too hot, which could happen quite quickly.
We have to adopt multi- cropping systems, which incorporate fruit trees and shrubs, very quickly in order to prevent large-scale famines. These trees provide shade for example for vegetables, capture carbon, provide food, feed and habitat for insects like bees, who pollinate crops. We have to start now, as it takes a long time for trees to establish. There is no way we can mitigate climate change by installing carbon capturing industrial plants. This would be far too expensive and slow. We have to plant more trees, any tree, to survive.
All of them unfortunatelly, but initially the high yielding varieties with high water use will be affected most. The crops that occupy the largest areas, like cotton, rice and wheat will also suffer the most. All areas around the equator will become too hot and dry to grow anything, affecting for example Coffee and Cocoa. Here in Australia, paddocks are already very much affected by ongoing drought, that means less and more expensive meat and wool. Climate change will also change areas that were previously too cold, like Siberia, into arable country for a while, until these areas also become too hot, which could happen quite quickly.
We have to adopt multi- cropping systems, which incorporate fruit trees and shrubs, very quickly in order to prevent large-scale famines. These trees provide shade for example for vegetables, capture carbon, provide food, feed and habitat for insects like bees, who pollinate crops. We have to start now, as it takes a long time for trees to establish. There is no way we can mitigate climate change by installing carbon capturing industrial plants. This would be far too expensive and slow. We have to plant more trees, any tree, to survive.
The crops like rice and wheat and many more cash crops suffer the most. Areas around the equator will become too hot and dry to grow any crop, affecting mainly Coffee and Cocoa. We have to plant more trees which is fast growing like bamboo is one of them, to survive
For example, in Ghana, the coastal areas in the volta region grow pepper, garden eggs, okra, etc but the rising sea levels have take over the land
Dear Malik Naser Abbood Alkinani ,
The FAO published a article about that:
http://www.fao.org/3/w5183e/w5183e0c.htm
@ Friederike: most vegetables are also severely affected by climatic changes, especially the succulent ones like cabbage, lettuce etc. since they are composed of about 90% water. In the dry season for instance they lose more than 50% of their yields. I am yet to publish a completed work on "drought effect during the growth stages of cabbage on its growth and yield".
I agree with you that crops that need large quantities of water are the most affected by climate change.
Thank you Friederike Susette Eberhard
Thank you Yourmila Kumari
We really need to address climate change by planting some crops that are resistant to drought conditions such as bamboo
We need remember some areas have more vulnerability to climate change, anything there i'll be afect
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