Key Findings of the study:
- The world's top 10 crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- supply a combined 83 % of all calories produced on cropland.
- Climate change causes a significant yield variation in the world's top 10 crops, ranging from a decrease of 13.4 % for oil palm to an increase of 3.5 % for soybean, and resulting in an average reduction of about 1 % of consumable food calories from these top 10 crops.
- The impacts of climate change on global food production are mostly -
- negative in Europe, Southern Africa, and Australia,
- positive in Latin America, and
- mixed in Asia and Northern and Central America.
Comment:
- The report has implications for major food companies, commodity traders and the countries in which they operate, as well as for citizens worldwide.
