Farmers don't know if they'll still be protected from crop failures or other natural disasters.
The weather has caused massive crop failures, driving a significant spike in the price of corn.
That was mostly because of crop failures and starvation, relief from which Americans still celebrate at Thanksgiving.
Included was a warning: drought and crop failures could trigger major population movements and lead to political instability.
It will not increase tornado outbreaks in the Southeast, crop failures in Midwest, or superstorms in the Northeast.
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Crop failures would not be limited to the tropics, the scientists concluded.
The couple remained on the island until 1930, when a desperately low population, crop failures and poor infrastructure, meant living there was no longer sustainable.
All over the world women are adapting to these changes, showing incredible resilience in the face of crop failures, water shortages and increases in environment-related diseases such as malaria.
This shot wheat prices in the United States to a two-year high and makes the inside edge any trader can get on crop failures or triumphs even that more lucrative.
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And not only were the same people leading the charge, but they were naming the same alleged cause (human industrial activity) and the same alleged consequences (more drought, extreme weather, crop failures, etc.).
That, along with crop failures in Russia and, more recently, the UK, has helped to turn prices that once served as ceilings into floors for commodities like wheat and corn in the last two years.
If the mega-sized farms of the current modern factory farm system were suddenly beset by a shortage of modern petro-based pesticides and herbicides, those farms would all suffer massive crop failures, and food would become scarce all around the world in less than two years.
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