Climate Change Will Hurt Brazilian Agriculture: Report

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BR -- Brazil stands to lose the ability to produce some of today's top crops over the coming decades due to weather patterns altered by climate change, according to a recent study.

The South American country will see a sharp decline in the amount of coffee, soy, corn, cassava and grain it produces and could reportedly see losses of up to $14 billion by 2070. Only sugar-cane crops will benefit from the weather changes, says a report from the country's agricultural research arm.

The analysis by research institute Embrapa and the University of Campinas found that higher temperatures in 2020, 2050 and 2070 will have the greatest impact on soy production, which currently represents the country's leading export. Suitable land for the crop will shrink by as much as 24 percent if emissions continue rising at present levels.

"This is what will happen if nothing is done," Eduardo Delgado Assad, the research center's head, told AFP.

Hilton Silveira Pinto, an author of the report told the Financial Times the fallout could be reduced by developing new temperature resistant strains but few could withstand average temperature rised greater than 2 degrees C.

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