Drosera plants, more commonly known as Sundews, often grow in soil that lacks nitrogen. Sundews get their nutrients from bugs lured in by the succulent droplets landing from the plant’s leaves.
Drosera plants, more commonly known as Sundews, often grow in soil that lacks nitrogen. Sundews get their nutrients from bugs lured in by the succulent droplets landing from the plant’s leaves.
One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
With the recent release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, climate change has been a familiar topic in the news and media. More recently new publications have explicitly linked climate change to food security and they show that there is much to be done by governments, big business and the public sector, if our food and agricultural systems are to be resilient to predicted changes in the climate.
A new report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of Weather Volatility and Climate Change, which builds on the IPCC report, explains how climate change will undermine efforts to tackle hunger, limiting food production and putting food supplies at risk. Higher temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and more frequent and severe natural disasters could reduce food production growth by 2% each decade for the rest of this century. But, the report…
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