"Big plans for the barbecue this July 4th weekend? Scientists are hard at work on your dinner, too. A Climate at Your Doorstep story."

"'What's for dinner?' is becoming a complicated question.

The world's population is projected to top nine billion by 2050, a 28 percent leap that will greatly increase the demand for food just as climate change is altering rainfall patterns and causing more frequent and widespread droughts.

The colliding trends have serious implications for agriculture and food security."

Lorena Galliot reports for the Daily Climate JUly 1, 2014. [2]