Journalism from the Thomson Reuters Foundation
Context is no longer producing new reporting, but this site will remain as an archive.Further details on the Thomson Reuters Foundation's journalism can be found here.
Kai Kornhuber profile image

Kai Kornhuber

Associate research scientist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Doherty Earth Observatory

Kai Kornhuber is an adjunct associate research scientist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and a senior research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations.

February 03, 2023

In recent years, record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, and floods are becoming increasingly common across the globe. These extreme weather events impact supply chains, built infrastructure, people’s livelihoods - and food production. 

Over the last decades, the world has experienced many episodes of crop production shortfalls in major cropping areas, regions known as ‘breadbaskets’.