Climate change is expected to disproportionately impact our world’s most vulnerable communities.
This article by AlertNet (Thomson Reuters) discusses the impacts of climate change on maize production in Argentina, and efforts by researchers to replace hybrid varieties with traditional ones that are expected to be much more adaptable to severe weather events such as droughts. This will prove to be a challenge for the Nation, one of the world’s biggest maize producers and exporters, as current production is dominated by hybrids and domestic consumers have all but forgot about traditional, local varieties.
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