Spatial distribution of consumptive water use (CWU) for crop production per grid cell of 30 arc-minutes (average over 1998-2002)
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Virus Ravages Cassava Plants In Africa
Tyler Hicks/The New York Times: A brown streak-infected Cassava.
African Agriculture Suffers From Erratic Climate
- Climate change hurting African crop yields
- Farmers complain rains no longer predictable
- Africa needs development to adapt, experts say
By Tim Cocks and Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN, April 20 (Reuters) - From Africa's humid jungles and cocoa plantations to
Big Food Push Urged To Avoid Global Hunger
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
Food Production "Must Rise 70%"
Food production will have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world's growing population, the United Nations food agency predicts. The Food and Agricultural Organisation says if more land is not used for food production now, 370 million people could be facing fa