Blistering crop-withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers could threaten swathes of global food production by 2045 as the world warms, an industry analysis warned Thursday.
The latest assessment by risk company Verisk Maplecroft brings those two threats together to calculate that heat stress already poses an"extreme risk" to agriculture in 20 countries, including agricultural giant India. Rice is particularly at risk, the assessment said, with other crops like cocoa and even tomatoes also singled out as of concern.Maplecroft's new heat stress dataset, using global temperature data from the UK Met Office, feeds into its wider risk assessments of countries around the world.
"There's a very real worry that people in rural areas, which are obviously highly dependent on agriculture, are going to be much more vulnerable to these kinds of heat events going forward," Nichols told AFP. The assessment highlights that major economies like the US and China could also see extreme risk to agriculture in 2045, although in these large countries the impacts vary by region.
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