Article by Pardee Center Director is Widely Republished

An article by Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos that was published recently by The Conversation has been picked up by media outlets and websites around the world.

Originally appearing in The Conversation on June 4, the article is about research conducted by Prof. Janetos and Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Associate John Connors that uses models to understand the potential economic and environmental impacts of catastrophic crop losses in multiple “breadbaskets” around the world.  This research is important for understanding how to make global food systems more robust and resilient as climate change is increasing the threat of multiple breadbasket failures in various regions of the world.

Since it first appeared, the article has been republished or referred to in a wide range of outlets including The Daily Mail, Business Insider, Salon.com, Elsevier SciTech Connect, and the website Science and Policy for All.

The article is related to a report published by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future earlier this year that outlines the need for an extensive, interdisciplinary science-based research program focused on the risks of multiple breadbasket failures, the threat such failures pose to the global food system, and the options that policymakers have to mitigate these risks.