Grow your own way: Trade may not help a warming planet fight its farming failures
Sunday, November 22, 2015 - 05:20
in Mathematics & Economics
A new study co-authored by an economist suggests that international trade will do little to alleviate climate-induced farming problems. Instead, the report indicates that countries will have to alter their own patterns of crop production to lessen farming problems -- and even then, there will be significant net losses in production under the basic scenarios projected by climate scientists.