Food security is uncertain under future climate change, but is there a threat of food system collapse? Now research assesses the probability of weather hazards occurring at the same time in the world’s major breadbaskets and reveals that the weather-related component of this risk could be increasing.
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Mehrabi, Z. Food system collapse. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 16–17 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0643-1
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