This #thanksgiving please remember that we cannot take food for granted-

Climate crisis exacerbated extremes are already battering food production around the world, causing shortages, driving up #inflation and straining farmers-

1. Australia: drowned livestock, ruined crops, worsening global wheat shortage

"It's absolutely beyond catastrophic"

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#ActNow #farming #food #ClimateCrisis
https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/7993960/floods-kill-close-to-10000-livestock-inundate-thousands-of-farms/?cs=9676
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/soggy-summer-promises-more-misery-sodden-nsw
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/floods-australia-threaten-wheat-supply-015607501.html?guccounter=1

2. Albania, Montenegro & Serbia:

'Days of Torrential Rain' cause 'Flooding, Evacuations, & 6 deaths'

Agricultural territory 'harshly impacted by the rainfall'
>7,500 acres flooded

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#food #ClimateCrisis #news #Balkans
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/54291/20221123/albania-montenegro-and-serbia-torrential-rain-albania-montenegro-and-serbia.htm
https://www.yahoo.com/now/severe-flooding-strikes-balkans-leaving-195004452.html

3.Everywhere:

'Climate extremes cause significant winter wheat yield loss & can cause much greater impacts than single extremes in isolation'

Compound hot-dry-windy events 'have significant implications for the U.S. winter wheat production & beyond'

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#food #foodsecurity #agriculture #farming #agri #foodblog #climatecrisis #news
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34947-6

4. Indonesia (coming soon):

Continued climate change to 'cut Indonesia's rice production by millions of tons a year, cutting exports by a third and leading to price increases of more than 50%'

Indonesia is the world's fourth-largest rice producer.

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#Indonesia #ClimateChange #food #foodsecurity #farming #rice #foodblogging
https://wap.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/climate-change-to-drastically-cut-indonesia-s-rice-coffee-produce-study-122112400253_1.html

5.Trinidad & Tobago:

Ongoing flooding sees farmers threaten to stop planting- 'it makes no sense to continue to suffer losses due to the losses being brought about by flood damage', most recently flooding crops, drowning cows.

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#trinidadandtobago #ClimateCrisis #food #farming #thanksgiving #thanksgiving2022
https://guardian.co.tt/news/cows-drown-crops-lost-in-manzanilla-flooding-6.2.1575508.8663861d0e
https://guardian.co.tt/news/farmers-threaten-to-stop-production-6.2.1568884.231b2e6199