Climate Change Poses Risks to Food, Beyond US Drought – 16 August 2012, Business Standard

Downpours and heatwaves caused by climate change could disrupt food supplies from the fields to the supermarkets, raising the risk of more price spikes such as this year’s leap triggered by drought in the United States. Food security experts working on a chapter in a U.N. overview of global warming due in 2014 said governments should take more account of how extremes of heat, droughts or floods could affect food supplies from seeds to consumers’ plates.

Climate Change Poses Risks to Food, Beyond US Drought