Cornell University | Climate change reduced farming productivity by 21% since 1961 @Cornell | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, scientists and economists now show that global farming production has fallen behind real productivity by 21% – the equivalent of losing about seven years of farm production – all thanks to humanity hastening climate change. This according to research by Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, associate professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.
Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, scientists and economists now show that global farming production has fallen behind real productivity by 21% – the equivalent of losing about seven years of farm production – all thanks to humanity hastening climate change. This according to research by Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, associate professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.
