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by CoreyFieldens 970 days ago
> "Drought and heat have already reduced global cereal production by as much as 10 percent in recent years, according to Steffen."

I'm not sure how they define this because I find conflicting info elsewhere. Our world in data has global cereal production only going up [0]. That data only goes until 2021 so there could have been a decrease in 2022 but then it would probably be wrong to say "recent years".

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-production?tab=cha...

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Land use for cereal production has been going up [0], so increasing amounts could be ruined while total production is up.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CREL.HA?view=cha...