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> "Drought and heat have already reduced global cereal production by as much as 10 percent in recent years, according to Steffen." I'm not sure how they define
by CoreyFieldens 3y ago
> "Drought and heat have already reduced global cereal production by as much as 10 percent in recent years, according to Steffen."
I'm not sure how they define this because I find conflicting info elsewhere. Our world in data has global cereal production only going up [0]. That data only goes until 2021 so there could have been a decrease in 2022 but then it would probably be wrong to say "recent years".
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-production?tab=chart&country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-production?tab=cha...
- potatopatch 3y agoLand use for cereal production has been going up [0], so increasing amounts could be ruined while total production is up. [0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CREL.HA?view=chart https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CREL.HA?view=cha...