“Creeping silent crisis” seen menacing world’s crops
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation A “creeping, silent crisis” is menacing the world’s food supply as water shortages could jeopardise up to 40 per cent of all irrigated crops by 2040, a US thinktank said this week. Erratic rainfall caused by climate change also threatens the water supply for a third of crops that rely on […]