The Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture

The harvest of food has always been subject to the climate. How often and reliably the rain fell, how hot or cold it got throughout the year, and what patterns the weather followed have shaped what we can grow where for thousands of years. Today however, we face the extraordinary challenge of a rapidly changing global climate that has already begun to cause unrivaled changes to the production of our food. This section explores how climate change is impacting agriculture from the spread of diseases to global changes is rainfall patterns.