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Scientists have, for the first time, predicted how climate change might affect fruit and vegetable production and in turn how this will impact on our health. Writing in the medical journal The Lancet, Dr. Marco Springmann predicts that by 2050 reduced fruit and vegetable intake could cause more than half a million extra deaths – with three quarters of these occurring in China and India. The deaths would be caused by changes to our diets and bodyweight from reduced crop productivity. This is the strongest evidence so far as to the damaging impact of climate change on human health.

(Photo: Fruit and vegetable vendors work in the Maputo city market. © ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images)