Coffee belts are shrinking, wine grapes are marching north, and rice paddies are drowning one year and drying up the next. Climate isn’t waiting politely for policy to catch up — it’s already rearranging our crops like a rude guest redecorating your house.
We already have two superpowers:
Climate modeling — tools that can project how rainfall, temperatures, and winds will shift. Crop knowledge — we already know how to grow crops in a variety of climate zones.
So why are we still reactive? Where are the seed trials, the local cropping experiments, the test plots for climate-smart rotations?
We're still doing “post-flood compensation” and “post-drought relief” instead of preparing for predictable disruption. The rains have changed. The maps are changing. Our mindset, sadly, isn’t.
If the climate is already moving, our farming must too — or we’ll be left holding seeds that no longer belong to the season.
