Climate Change Could Cut Global Food Output 18% By 2050Where [irrigation] should be expanded is diff...

1. Climate Change Could Cut Global Food Output 18% By 2050
Climate Change Could Cut Global Food Output 18% By 2050
Where [irrigation] should be expanded is difficult to model because of competing scenarios on how
rainfall will change, so the majority of irrigation investments should be made after 2030, the study
said.
"If you don't carefully plan (where to spend resources), you will get adaptation wrong," David
Leclere, one of the study's authors, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Infrastructure and processing chains will need to be built in areas where there was little agriculture
before in order to expand production, he said.
International food markets will require closer integration to respond to global warming, as
production will become more difficult in some southern regions, but new land further north will
become available for growing crops.