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Business Latest: Climate change threatens food supply

Climate change could reduce food production by 2 percent each decade for the rest of the century, even as the need for food grows.
Dried and cracked earth on an unplanted field at a farm on April 29, 2014 near Mendota, California.
Dried and cracked earth on an unplanted field at a farm on April 29, 2014 near Mendota, California.

HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS THREATENING OUR FOOD SUPPLY: Climate change could reduce food production by 2% each decade for the rest of the century, even as the need for food grows, a new bipartisan report predicts. Read more

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