Does the climate crisis threaten Latin America’s food production model?

As a global food supplier, the region must adapt land use to combat climate change, new IPCC report says With the largest amount of cultivatable land in the world, Latin America plays a key role in global food production. The region has experienced significant agricultural expansion in the last 50 years, increasing the cultivated area from 560 to 740 million hectares – with devastating environmental consequences. Much land today is deforested or degraded and its biodiversity decimated. Preventing further…