Sentences with phrase «global wheat yields»

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If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

But plant geneticist Norman Borlaug developed a high - yield, disease - resistant dwarf wheat that boosted global agricultural production — the Green Revolution.

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

By that time, CIMMYT predicts, almost a quarter of South Asia's wheat yield could be wiped out by global warming.

French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire warned this week that the warmest and driest spring in half a century could slash wheat yields and might even push up world prices despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's predicting a bumper global crop due to greater plantings.

Worldwide this would correspond to 42 million tons of yield reduction, which equals a quarter of current global wheat trade.

Through our global partnerships, PPI aims to develop and commercialize high yielding agri - crops such as corn, soybean, rice, cotton and wheat.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

Posted in Global Warming, Research Comments Off on Global Warming Will Cut Wheat Yields, Research Shows

Wheat, rice, and maize production in tropical and temperate regions are anticipated to vary widely in yields, with severe yield impacts significantly increasing after 2050, depending on global temperatures.

So too will be the people who starve as global warming diminishes crop yields of the world's three staples — corn, rice, and wheat.

Worldwide this would correspond to 42 million tons of yield reduction, which equals a quarter of current global wheat trade, experts warn.»

These are incorporated based upon prior work using (1) the surface ozone response to methane emissions changes from two global composition - climate models, (2) the impact of ozone on yields of four staple crops, wheat, maize, soy and rice, based on the methodology of Van Dingenen et al. (2009), and (3) their valuation using world market prices, as described in Shindell et al. (2012a).

«Global warming will cut wheat yields, research shows,» The Guardian, December 23, 2014.