Potatoes and climate change

Along with the familiar difficulties related to pests and diseases, potato farmers are increasingly confronted with abiotic problems. Farmers and researchers report an increase in water stress, changes in rainfall distribution and intensity, hail, and increasingly frequent frost and snowfall at high altitudes. The growing frequency of extreme weather events is generally interpreted as clearly related to climate change. The newest report by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, states that global climate warming is an unequivocal fact. Projections by the IPCC..