Brazil’s climate crises a dog’s breakfast for the world as food prices rocket
Study predicts 10% drop in yields in 30 years, in which time global population is expected to grow more than a fifth
28 September 2021 - 20:29
No country on Earth puts more breakfasts on kitchen tables than Brazil.
The farms that dot the vast plains and highlands that rise above the Atlantic coast produce four-fifths of the world’s orange juice exports, half of its sugar exports, a third of coffee exports and a third of the soy and maize used to feed egg-laying hens and other livestock...
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