Our Changing Menu - Ingredient Database

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Dragon Fruit

Vietnam; India

Vietnam is the source of most dragon fruit and most of the 1.3 million tons (1.2 million metric tons) produced annually is exported. Here it is facing increasing challenges from climate change, mainly the increasing incidence of droughts.[1] In India, farmers are expanding dragon fruit production because it is more resilient than crops they typically grow and allows them to diversify their incomes.[2]

References:

[1] Research and Markets, “Dragon Fruit Market Projections 2020-2025: Production and Consumption, Imports and Exports, Price Trend Analysis,” GlobeNewswire News Room, August 19, 2020, http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/08/19/2080469/0/en/Dragon-Fruit-Market-Projections-2020-2025-Production-Consumption-Imports-Exports-Price-Trend-Analysis.html.

[2] Climate change blues: ‘everyday monsoon’ foxes Mizo farmers - The Hindu BusinessLine. (n.d.). Retrieved April 22, 2019, from https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/science/climate-change-blues-everyday-monsoon-foxes-mizo-farmers/article9864920.ece.

Our foods and food ingredients: They're all changing.

Yields of major staple crops like wheat and rice are being hurt by increasing temperatures. Wine grape production is moving to cooler climes causing changes in the character of some of our favorites. The flavors and health benefits of teas, the size of potatoes, the sting of a hot pepper, where fish call home in the oceans, and a future decline in protein in vegetables—it’s all changing.

Our food database shows the ingredients affected by a changing climate.

To learn what farmers, scientists, and many others are doing to keep the menu stocked, see Stewardship of the Land and Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need. You have a role, too!

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This food ingredient database is in its early phase and we will strive to expand it on an ongoing basis so that everyone is aware of how climate change is affecting the foods we love and need.