Rice is one of the most important crops in the world alongside wheat and maize.
Furthermore, because bananas are clones, whole plantations could be devastated by such an attack.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that bananas are the fourth most important crop in the world, after wheat, rice and maize.
Potato production ranks fourth in the world after rice, wheat, and maize and it is highly sensitive to water stress.
Banana is counted among the most important food security crops in the world after rice, wheat and maize.
One of the reasons that the climate effects Dr Lobell and his colleagues have dug out of the data are not worse is that, although the planet as a whole has warmed up during the past 30 years, growing seasons in the parts of America which produce 40% of the world's maize and soyabeans have failed to follow suit.
The best part of the world's maize and soyabean crops goes to feeding animals.Separately, before poor farmers start buying seeds from big Western seed companies they should try some basic technologies such as crop rotation, green fertilisers and agroforestry.
Economists who study food issues say the worldwide drop in productivity is a red flag: potential shortages of soybeans, rice, wheat and maize, the world's primary grains, are a real possibility.
It accounts for half the world's maize trade and 40% of soyabeans.
The three most prominent world crops (maize, rice and wheat) have already been employed in transgenic glycosyl hydrolase production [ 155- 157].
The call for increased fortification came at Central and Eastern European and Commonwealth of Independent States regional flour-fortification workshop, which has been jointly organized by UNICEF and the Flour Fortification Initiative, a network of public, private, and civic organizations that promote micronutrient fortification of wheat and maize flour around the world.
