Extreme weather to cause extreme food shortages, task force finds

Food shortages and price hikes caused by extreme weather will be three times more likely over the coming decades, according to a new report.

The U.K.-U.S. Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience found that unless better planning, modeling and trade arrangements are put in place, massive disruptions to our food supply — the kind that usually only occur once a century — will happen every 30 years.

Extreme weather in areas that produce our most important crops is largely the cause. A massive drought is already underway...