ProfileMeet the Context team
Kai Kornhuber
Associate research scientist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Doherty Earth Observatory
Kai Kornhuber is an adjunct associate research scientist at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and a senior research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations.
February 03, 2023
In recent years, record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, and floods are becoming increasingly common across the globe. These extreme weather events impact supply chains, built infrastructure, people’s livelihoods - and food production.
Over the last decades, the world has experienced many episodes of crop production shortfalls in major cropping areas, regions known as ‘breadbaskets’.