‘Wake-up call’: Simultaneous crop failure more likely than thought, study warns

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in Nature Communications is sounding the alarm that the risk of simultaneous crop failure in important food-producing regions around the world has been largely underestimated.

Such an event could threaten the world’s food supply, cause price spikes and even lead to civil unrest, warns the paper’s lead author.

Researchers looked at observational and climate model data between 1960 and 2014, and then at projections for 2045 to 2099, and found that computer…