In this video, Colette Heald -- Associate Professor in PAOC, EAPS and Associate Department Head in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering -- explains at the World Economic Forum the role that air pollution plays in crop damage and climate change and discusses how we can increase global food production if climate change from air pollution is reducing our crop yields. Some estimates project that global crop yields will reduce 9-15% by 2015, whilst food demand is rising.
Read this story at MIT's ClimateX.