40% of EU agricultural imports will be 'highly vulnerable' to drought by 2050

A trio of researchers has found that approximately 40% of agricultural products imported into the European Union will be “highly vulnerable” to drought by 2050. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, Ertug Ercin, Ted Veldkamp and Johannes Hunink, from R2Water Research and Consultancy, the Amsterdam University of Applied Science and FutureWater, respectively, suggest the droughts impacting agricultural products will be due to global warming.


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Source: Phys.org