A climate model suggests that soybeans, wheat, and particularly maize are vulnerable to rising temperatures.
However, what they fail to report is, as we explain in the article, our intention "to perform an initial screening of potential Bt-maize effects on a non-target organism" and our conclusion that "The results indicate that D. magna, and potentially also other related aquatic zooplankton species, might be vulnerable to transgenic Cry1Ab-maize.
The majority of the world's food supply comes from the consumption of seeds from grain crops (wheat, rice, maize, soybean, barley, and sorghum), which are most vulnerable to changing climates.
Because European growers rely on crop rotation for WCR management [30], foliar and soil insecticides are rarely used [48] and the adoption of TG maize is in its infancy, they are more vulnerable to mounting populations.
Many areas where maize is grown, including parts of Africa, are vulnerable to drought.
Clustering of risk factors, or their cumulative effects throughout the life course, make underprivileged populations more vulnerable to facing barriers to accessing fortification of maize flour and corn meal.
But according to this research, wheat will face a difficult future in the developing world, where higher prices for cotton, maize and soybeans have pushed wheat to marginal land, making it more vulnerable to stresses induced by climate change.
Zambia's dependency on copper makes it vulnerable to depressed commodity prices, but record high copper prices and a bumper maize crop in 2010 helped Zambia rebound quickly from the world economic slowdown that began in 2008.
Local mills are more vulnerable to increases in fuel prices than are large industries producing commercially distributed maize flour.
Maize plays a leading role in the food security of millions in southern Africa, yet it is highly vulnerable to the moisture stress brought about by the erratic rainfall patterns that characterize weather systems in the area.
