Climate Change Cooks Up Trouble for Mexican Agriculture
Climate change heats up Mexico's agriculture, slashing rain-fed crop yields by up to 80%. Corn, beans, wheat — all feeling the heat. New resistant crops and better research funding offer hope.
The effects of climate change are being suffered in Mexico and are especially severe for agriculture, especially rainfed agriculture, warned Francisco Estrada Porrúa, coordinator of UNAM's Climate Change Research Program (PINCC).
Despite the situation, there is scarce scientific literature on the subject, since there are only 96 articles on the subject, published from 1990 to 2022, in addition to the fact that the information is biased and does not study all crops of national importance, he acknowledged.
