RedOrbit: In light of growing concern over the potential impact of climate change on the global agricultural industry, researchers are searching for new ways to help ensure global access to some of the most important food crops.
In one such study, Toshichika Iizumi of the National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan and an international team of colleagues report that they have discovered a way to use climate data to help predict some crop failures several months prior to harvest....