CBC MontrealJun 3
Competition for soon-to-expire food has Montreal food banks struggling
Changes in how grocers manage their close-to-expired stock have reduced Moisson Montréal’s food supply, according to the non-profit's director of philanthropy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/moisson-montreal-soon-to-expire-food-9.7219461?cmp=rss
AlexJun 2

Well at least we have an near endless supply of food going into this massive heatwave, right? Right???

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/prepare-for-imminent-return-of-el-nino-un-warns

#climate #drought #foodsupply

Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns

UN agency predicts phenomenon that supercharges weather extremes has 80% chance of forming before September

The Guardian
Da_GutJun 1

OK, I’m particularly interested in listening to this one!

#Podcast #FoodSupply #Food #PlanetMoney #FDA #FoodAdditives

AI6YR BenMay 23

LA Times: For the first time, a warm winter just wiped out SoCal’s little-known cherry harvest

" In May, Leona Valley is usually bustling with families who arrive from across Southern California for an annual tradition: U-pick cherries.
But this year has been so warm that the trees produced no fruit. Orchards that usually attract hundreds of visitors on weekends now sit empty.

...In Los Angeles County, average temperatures in the six months from October through March were 4 degrees warmer than the 30-year average, and the warmest on record in 131 years. The winter brought unprecedented warmth across the western United States. ..."

(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-19/cherry-season-record-warmth

#agriculture #foodsupply #climateemergency #climate

No fruit at California U-pick cherry farms after warm and short winter

May is usually cherry-picking season in parts of Southern California. But Leona Valley orchards has announced there are none to pick because it's been so warm.

Los Angeles Times
Hacker NewsMay 14

USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-harvest-1972-due-plains-drought

#HackerNews #USDA #Wheat #Harvest #Drought #Agriculture #FoodSupply

USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

USDA forecasts historic wheat lows and record soybean gains amid drought, trade tensions, and rising input costs for the 2026/27 season.

AgWeb
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️May 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116560807630560877

Sustainable smaller farming organization and networks instead of conglomerate vertical monopolies offer sound and safe food supply not vulnerable to crisis management. We already know this. Thanks to Iran’s defense forces for demonstrating these insights in 2026.
#farming #foodsupply #food #Hormuz

Show threadIvi ChocMay 3
#UN #food #foodSecurity #foodSupply #farming #agriculture #ExtremeWeather #FAO #WMO joint report 2026 April Extreme Heat and Agriculture doi.org/10.4060/cd93... #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #polycrisis

Extreme heat and agriculture
Extreme heat and agriculture

Extreme heat is emerging as one of the most urgent and least understood threats to agriculture and food security. Rising temperatures, prolonged heatwaves, and shifting climate patterns are already disrupting crop yields, livestock health, water availability, and rural livelihoods – with impacts falling disproportionately on the most vulnerable.Because extreme heat is predictable, strengthening climate services and early warning systems linked to anticipatory actions is a key opportunity. It is also clear that there are profound limits to what adaptation can achieve. With global mean temperatures on the cusp of exceeding the 1.5 °C warming limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, the urgency for adaptation and mitigation action only grows. The only durable solution to protect the future of global agrifood systems from the escalating threat of extreme heat lies in ambitious, multilateral climate change mitigation.

Ivi ChocMay 3
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review #UN #food #foodSecurity #foodSupply #farming #agriculture #ExtremeWeather #WetBulbTemperature Paul & Sir Isaac Newton ESP presenting the #FAO #WMO joint report 2026 #climatechange #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:goyko7xu2ovkegs3g3isrdhz/post/3mk4xmmo4t22r
Show threadIvi ChocMay 3

#UN #food #foodSecurity #foodSupply #farming #agriculture #ExtremeWeather

#FAO #WMO joint report 2026 April

Extreme Heat and Agriculture

https://doi.org/10.4060/cd9394en

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

Extreme heat and agriculture

Extreme heat is emerging as one of the most urgent and least understood threats to agriculture and food security. Rising temperatures, prolonged heatwaves, and shifting climate patterns are already disrupting crop yields, livestock health, water availability, and rural livelihoods – with impacts falling disproportionately on the most vulnerable.Because extreme heat is predictable, strengthening climate services and early warning systems linked to anticipatory actions is a key opportunity. It is also clear that there are profound limits to what adaptation can achieve. With global mean temperatures on the cusp of exceeding the 1.5 °C warming limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, the urgency for adaptation and mitigation action only grows. The only durable solution to protect the future of global agrifood systems from the escalating threat of extreme heat lies in ambitious, multilateral climate change mitigation.

Ivi ChocMay 3

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/116451652436454940

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review #UN #food #foodSecurity #foodSupply #farming #agriculture #ExtremeWeather #WetBulbTemperature

Paul & Sir Isaac Newton ESP presenting the #FAO #WMO joint report 2026

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis