Climate Change Puts Mexico's Farms at Risk The News
go to original April 16, 2013

After 20 years of drought and little help from government, aquaduct further threatens Yaqui way of life. (AlJazeeraEnglish)

Climate Change will reduce agricultural productivity, stability and incomes across Mexico and much of the world, according the the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

On Monday, FAO Deputy Director-General Daniel Gustafson warned that regions with high levels of food insecurity will suffer the worst effects of climate change.

At an FAO meeting in Rome this week, Gustafson said that world food production needs to increase 60 percent by the middle of this century to feed the growing population. Gustafson added that conserving the planet’s genetic resources would be crucial to the survival of humanity.

Genetic diversity in agriculture, he continued, plays an important role in enabling crops, animals and trees to withstand conditions created by climate change.

In the last century, he added, 75 percent of genetic diversity was lost as farmers opted for the highest-yielding varieties of crops.

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