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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Nina Lakhani, Alvin Chang, Rita Liu and Andrew Witherspoon

Five charts that show why our food is not ready for the climate crisis

A map of Mexico and Central America showing the areas where coffee is grown and how suitable it will be under climate crisis.
Climate crisis will make traditionally coffee-growing regions much less suitable for the crop. Composite: The Guardian

The industrialization of agriculture in the last century boosted production around the world – but that success also made our food systems much more vulnerable to the growing climate crisis.

Modern agriculture depends on high-yield monocrops from a narrow genetic base that needs lots of fertilisers, chemicals and irrigation.

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