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Study finds climate change might dramatically reduce wheat production

2015-02-18 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hutchinson News: A recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the coming decades at least one-quarter of the world's wheat production will be lost to extreme weather from climate change if no adaptive measures are taken. Vara Prasad, professor of crop ecophysiology and director of the USAID Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at Kansas State University, is part of a collaborative team that found wheat yields are projected to decrease by 6 percent for each degree...

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