Climate change models find staple crops face ruin on up to one million square Km of African farmland
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 19:42
in Earth & Climate
Nairobi (3 June 2009) -- A new study by researchers from the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the United Kingdom's Waen Associates has found that by 2050, hotter conditions, coupled with shifting rainfall patterns, could make anywhere from 500,000 to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland no longer able to support even a subsistence level o