2009Jan9: Dr Geoff Hawtin, director general of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and a former executive secretary of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, on rising temperatures in summers: “We can’t just move all our crops north (or south) because a lot of crops are photosensitive. Flowering is triggered by day length – so you would run into all sorts of problems if you tried that…And even if Russia and Canada turn out to be the world’s bread baskets, the cost of transporting the food to Africa will be too much. People in these areas can’t afford food now” (BBC).
Reference: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7817684.stm
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