Oral tradition has it that this is the site of the Brodess plantation where Harriet Tubman was born in 1820. Her parents, Benjamin and Harriet Green Ross, then slaves of Edward Brodess, were the grandchildren of Negroes who had come shackled from Africa in 1725.
Global warming is (1) opening up more land for economically feasible crop production and (2) creating beneficial growing conditions that are increasing yields per acre on agricultural lands. All the fear-mongering Internet myths in the world canât change those facts. You are using an outdated browser.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to publish crop modeling studies conducted in 18 countries. These studies, which Rosenzweig et al. (1993) list in Appendix 2 of Climate Change and World Food Supply, simulate the effects of climate change on crop yields, food production, and trade.