Facing A Threat To Farming And Food Supply (Wash Post)

On November 19th, the Washington Post ran a full-page science feature by Rick Weiss on page A6 with a map of the world showing projected impacts on agriculture by country, and two bar charts showing the biggest “winners and losers” globally and within the U.S. The graphics were based upon William Cline’s recent book, Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country. Cline, a joint fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was the guest for a WashingtonPost.com live discussion.

From the article:

"...Time is of the essence if a worldwide crisis in food security is to be avoided, said William R. Cline, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington-based nonpartisan economic think tanks.

'You'll have a tripling of world food demand by 2085 because of higher population and bigger economies, and I would not be surprised to see as much as one-third of today's agricultural land devoted to plants for ethanol,' Cline said. 'So it's going to be a tight race between food supply and demand.'"