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

Crops are already seeing losses from heat and drought. Can genetic diversity - a return to foods' origins - help combat the climate challenges ahead?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. Continue reading...