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Last week’s release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report<\/a> gave many their first glimpse into how climate change<\/a> might impact the foods they rely on for nutrition.<\/p>\n The report took the spotlight away from extreme weather<\/a>, exposing food and resource wars as other potential results of the world’s changing climate. If battles for food and water do take place, part of the reason will be a warmer world and the inability for some crops to grow as effectively as they did in the past. <\/p>\n In talking to National Geographic<\/em><\/a>, David Wolfe, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University and committee member of Cornell’s Institute for Climate Change and Agriculture<\/a>, said we shouldn’t particular crops to disappear soon. However, he said that farmers should get used to spending more money and expending more energy to combat droughts<\/a>, crop damage, smaller harvests and more.<\/p>\n Here are a few “bellwether foods” the publication predicts could be impacted, including avocados, which Wolfe says could be the “poster child for the threats to California agriculture.”<\/p>\n [blackoutgallery id=”329679″]<\/p>\n “If it was as simple as gradual warming, farmers could plant around it,” Wolfe said. “But as this global experiment has been playing out, farmers are seeing things they’ve never seen before.”<\/p>\n ——–<\/p>\n YOU ALSO MIGHT LIKE<\/b><\/p>\n Groundbreaking UN Report Warns Climate Change a Threat to Global Security and Mankind<\/a><\/p>\n Chipotle Warns Climate Change Could Cut Guacamole From Its Menu<\/a><\/p>\n