Sustainable eating for a healthy planet
“Farmers received more than $143.5 billion in federal crop insurance payments from drought and excess moisture, exacerbated by the climate crisis, according to [Environmental Working Group] EWG’s new crop insurance database.”
“The top 10 counties with the largest drought indemnities were in Texas, which has gotten hotter and drier (Table 2).”
See below URL to access the full article.
https://www.ewg.org/research/crop-losses-climate-crisis-cost-billions-dollars-insurance-payouts
New research published in the journal PLoS ONE “models how growing conditions for three popular foods – coffee, cashews, and avocados – will change in the next 30 years…”
See the below National Geographic article for more details about the new study.
An upcoming discussion about the book Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need (Cornell University Press, 2021) on February 7th at 8 PM ET hosted by the NOAA Planet Stewards book club. See below URL for more information about the book. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/planet-stewards/upcoming.html
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