Food crises and global warming: Critical realism and the need to re-institutionalize science

Activities in many and various domains of human life not only contribute causally to, but also experience harmful impact from, global warming, deriving from the build up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the climate changes that it is bringing about. Combating global warming, therefore, requires efforts in all these domains to eliminate its causes and to reverse its harmful impact. Agriculture is one of these domains (see p. 188).