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"Australia’s vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising
global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods.
Climate change is expected to supercharge this, causing sudden flash droughts,
changing rainfall patterns and intense flooding rains. Farm profits fell 23% in
the 20 years to 2020, and the trend is expected to continue.
Unchecked, climate change will make it harder to produce food on a large scale.
We get over 40% of our calories from just three plants: wheat, rice and corn.
Climate change poses very real risks to these plants, with recent research
suggesting the potential for synchronised crop failures.
While we have long modified our crops to repel pests or increase yields, until
now, no commercial crop has been designed to tolerate heat. We are working on
this problem by trying to make soybean plants able to tolerate the extreme
weather of a hotter world."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
