Almonds decimated by frost, tomatoes disrupted by heat, and Halloween pumpkins shrunk by drought: it’s been a punishing year for agriculture in Europe.
The hot, dry summer – which would have been “virtually impossible" if it weren’t for climate change – reduced the continent’s forecast grain harvest by an estimated 16.7 million tonnes, costing farmers more than €3 billion, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
