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Voice of America: A new study says climate change has reduced the world's wheat and maize production. The study says rice and soybean yields have also decreased in some places -- but increased in others. In the words of the researchers: "For soybeans and rice, winners and losers largely balanced out."
The researchers studied climate trends and global crop production from between nineteen eighty and two thousand eight. They found that climate changes "are already exerting a considerable drag on yield growth" and......
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Study Links Climate Change to Changes in Crop Yields
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 16th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation