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What if several of the world's biggest food crops failed at the same time?

  • Written by Anthony Janetos, Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
imageDrought-damaged corn on an Ohio farm, 2012.Christina Reed, USDA/Flickr, CC BY

Less than one-quarter of Earth’s total cropland produces nearly three-quarters of the staple crops that feed the world’s population – especially corn, wheat and rice, the most important cereal crops. These areas are our planet’s major breadbaskets.

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