{"id":1919,"date":"2013-04-15T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:36:12","slug":"climate-and-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"Climate and food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer newspaper had a apocalyptic headline last Sunday &#8220;Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists&#8221;.\u00a0 The newspaper had been talking to some climate scientists in advance of a couple of food security conferences.\u00a0 What they have to say was very worrying.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Africa will be worst hit, Egypt will lose 15% of its Wheat production if temperatures rise 2C.\u00a0 Sub-Saharan Africa will face a 5-22% decline in crop yields.<\/li>\n<li>Europe; will produce 20% less Wheat, 30% less rice and\u00a0 47% less maize.\u00a0 Yes Northern areas like Scotland and Russia will become more fertile but Russia will face increasing forest fires.\u00a0 in any case no country is an an island and higher prices will affect everywhere.<\/li>\n<li>Americas; Brazil 20% decline in soya production, in California a 10-30% decline in tomato, rice, cotton, Maize and sunflowers by 2050.<\/li>\n<li>Asia, basic foodstuff production insufficient by 2030 in China.\u00a0 Malnourishment up by up to 11m in south east Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this means a huge rise in food insecurity.\u00a0 Some of the projected falls are not that big, but mask higher demand partly due to higher population.\u00a0 The projected rise in food costs is 40-50% by 2050 but this takes no account of climate change or peak oil, only population and rising incomes.\u00a0 The energy embedded in food is huge and we&#8217;ve seen from last summer how unreliable our climate can be.\u00a0 Droughts in the US and floods in Europe caused the biggest crop losses for decades.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking about all this at the weekend at the Eco-congregation Scotland annual gathering.\u00a0 The future is worrying.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer newspaper had a apocalyptic headline last Sunday &#8220;Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists&#8221;.\u00a0 The newspaper had been talking to some climate scientists in advance of a couple of food security conferences.\u00a0 What they have to say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=1919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-food"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate and food, climate change and food security.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Climate and food, climate change and food security. 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