Summary Wetter conditions return to the summer rainfall region Following a mostly dry April, conditions are expected to return to a wetter pattern into early May.

Continuing the balmy trend to 2021, the month of March ended as the world’s eighth-warmest March in 142 years of record-keeping.

On its Climate Science Information Centre, extended in February to South Africa, Facebook states that “at least 97% of published scientists agree that global warming is real and caused by humans”.

Agriculture and climate change are deeply intertwined. The effects of global warming on food supply are dire, whilst world population is increasing. It's time to change the way agriculture affects the environment, and vice versa.

The impact of climate change on agricultural productivity is having a disproportionate effect on poorer, warmer countries.

The past 18 months have demonstrated just how delicate the food supply chain is, whether at the hand of climate change, political disruption or even a global pandemic.