Earlier and earlier harvests, increased episodes of spring frost and devastating storms, disappearance of certain vineyards in the hottest and driest regions: scientists have been warning for years about the predictable impact of global warming on viticulture.
But these pessimistic forecasts are counterbalanced by perspectives of adaptation and developments which could encourage the emergence of new fields in unexploited regions.
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The whole question is whether professionals faced with this development will be able to adjust to it, for example by focusing on more resistant grape varieties and on cultivation techniques allowing the ripening of the grapes to be delayed ,
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explains Cornelis van Leeuwen, researcher. at Bordeaux Sciences Agro and at INRAE, which publishes a global map of the upheavals to come in the journal
Nature Reviews Earth &
Environment
on March 26.
Adaptation impossible
According to this synthesis of the literature, which…
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