Intensively farmed areas like northeast Brazil and Mexico are likely to see their prime growing seasons fall below 120 days, which is critical for crops such as corn to mature.

Population lacking drinking water in Guangxi has declined to 1.72m, a 49.5% fall from the worst time. Crops affected by the drought dropped 77.4% to 3.65m mu.

Latin America comes out of the exercise relatively well: the yields of its main crops are expected to fall by only a few percent.