THIS week the climate change spotlight of doom falls on farmers, with a report suggesting that a squeeze on the length of the growing season could rob them of enough time to grow the crops on which millions of people rely.
The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) took the second-worst climate change scenario developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and identified the regions likely to be hit by a reduction of 5 per cent or more in their crop growing seasons by 2050.
Even a short reduction in the growing season can mean a complete crop…
