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Water Scarcity Events Could Impact Multiple Key Wheat-Growing Regions at Once (3 of 4)

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Water Scarcity Events Could Impact Multiple Key Wheat-Growing Regions at Once (3 of 4)

video: Relationship between the proportion of the wheat growing area of the top ten wheat exporters affected by major droughts during the harvest year or one of the two years preceding the harvest, and the FAO cereal price index or the International Grain Council wheat price index. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the September 25th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Trnka at Global Change Research Institute CAS in Brno, Czech Republic, and colleagues was titled, "Mitigation efforts will not fully alleviate the increase in water scarcity occurrence probability in wheat-producing areas." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Monika Bl&aacute;hov&aacute;, Mirek Trnka, Richard Semer&aacute;d, Jan Meitner, Jan Balek, Daniela Semer&aacute;dov&aacute; and authors of Trnka <em>et al.</em>]


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