Global crop failures resulting from climate impacts threaten food and economic security. This, in turn, can also trigger social unrest and violence.

In today’s interdependent world, sudden scarcity in a single global commodity can trigger hoarding and send economic shock waves around the world, as seen in the 2008 global rice price crisis, for example – and global crop failures hit the poorest people and the poorest countries hardest. 

Energy-intensive fossil-fuel-based chemical farming methods, often touted as part of ‘sustainable’ agriculture plans are both a major global contributor to – and highly vulnerable to – climate damage. Expanding industrial agriculture is reducing the productive capacity of land, while heightened uncertainty in anticipation of global crop failure due to climate change also makes crop price crises more likely.

A new ‘deep green revolution’ is needed to prevent global crop failures, through agro-ecological, regenerative and climate-positive farming methods.

Every player must add 1 Community in Crisis per Temperature Band.

Players can reduce this effect by 1 for each Social Resilience token in their player board.

For example: 5 Temperature Bands – 3 Social Resilience = add 2 Communities in Crisis.

Resilience tokens are not discarded.

• How Fear Drove World Rice Markets Insane (The Salt, NPR) 

• Holistic Management (Savory Institute) 

• Climateflation: the long-term cost of burning fossil fuels (Positive Money) 

• Consider taking action to promote regenerative agricultural practices.

• Support groups campaigning to raise awareness of climateflation, like Positive Money

• Campaign for your government to plan for resilient healthcare services, local aid networks and food networks that can cope with shortages and price volatility.