Synchronous crop failures and climate-forced production variability

• Published in: Science Advances
• Main Authors: Anderson, W. B., Seager, R., Baethgen, W., Cane, M., You, Liangzhi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: crop losses; agricultural production; climate; crop production; climate change; spatial data; crop failures; climate modes; Indian; Isi; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaaw1976; https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw1976; http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll5/id/6731

Large-scale modes of climate variability can force widespread crop yield anomalies and are therefore often presented as a risk to food security. We quantify how modes of climate variability contribute to crop production variance. We find that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Indian Ocean...