Climate change could cost us one in six species of animal. It is certainly going to change the way farming is carried out across the world. The hope is that resurrection plants can be used to allow crops to cope for long periods without water and University of Cape Towns’ Jill Farrant is exploring this.
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There is however bad news as some crops will have to be grown elsewhere and the local area will be affected. Access to items will change, and the level to which the changes occur will depend upon how hot things become with temperatures of over 30 degrees causing major problems. Professor Wolfram Schlenker of Columbia University uses soybean and corn as examples.
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Companies are working to improve things as the Gates Foundation are working towards producing crops that can cope with drought and unusual temperatures. Genetic engineering is the future, and yet it is not the final solution.
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Sure current farming methods will help, and this can be things as basic as using a little extra fertilizer to improving irrigation methods. There would be a vast improvement just as a result of using what is available better.
A final solution would be to change our diet and not rely on products such as corn, wheat and rice which are all sensitive to heat.