Researchers, including Miroslav Trnka and Jan Balek from the Department of Climate Change Impacts on Agroecosystems at Mendel University in Brno predict that greater variability and extremeness of local weather will lead to reduced yields in wheat and increased yield variability. Unless wheat varieties are improved, the result could be a market with greater speculation and price volatility, which may threaten stable access to food by the poor. This can turn enhance political instability and migration.
You can read the entire study here.
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