Majority of world's food producers risk being cooked by climate change

A man walks across an almost dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India on 2 May, 2022. © AP - Manish Swarup

Worsening global heatwaves pose a threat to 70 percent of the world's agricultural and food production between now and 2045, a recent study by risk analysts Verisk Maplecroft has found.

Climate change is already stoking heatwaves and other extreme weather events across the globe, with hot spells from India to Europe this year expected to hit crop yields.