Climate change and its effects on Europe, the USA, and Latin America

This is an opportunity to talk about climate change, an important phenomenon affecting world agriculture. I would like to start with an update about what is going on in terms of the weather worldwide, so that we can then think through what these changes may mean for tomato production in America and Europe. There is no doubt that climate change is a global phenomenon with anthropic components that are very important. We cannot evade the responsibility that we have as human beings in the alterations to the climate that are being observed worldwide. These will leave biological traces, some of which are permanent, even if we are able to control climate change. We will probably be able to do this in the end, but not before 100 years, and over that century, the footprint we are going to leave could be permanent. Agriculture will certainly be affected by climate change throughout the world, and we must absolutely work preemptively on the potential effects of climate change so as to ...