Bad news for wheat

Climate change threatens wheat harvest as well. It has been reported that the future global harvest is likely to be reduced by six percent per each degree celsius of increase in local temperature.
This corresponds to 42 million tons of yield reduction worldwide which equals a quarter of current global wheat trade. This has been concluded in an international research consortium to which the National Resources Institute of Finland contributed substantially. The results were published online in the high impact journal Nature Climate Change. Moreover, the decline is likely to be larger than previously thought and should be expected earlier starting even with small increases in temperature. Therefore, it is necessary to understand how different factors interact and impact food production. In view of this, timely and adequate adaptation such as cultivating more heat-tolerant wheat cultivars can substantially reduce climate change-induced risks.
Khan Faraz
Peshawar