Agriculture & Nutrition
5 Ways Schools Can Boost the Local Food Economy
This post discusses five different ways that schools can increase the amount of locally procured food they serve students, despite the hurdles of cost and logistics....
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food
For a growing number of nutritionists, the obesity epidemic is inextricably linked to the sales of packaged foods, which grew 25 percent worldwide from 2011 to 2016...Brazil is a microcosm....
9 TED talks that will change the way you think about food
Check out some of these interesting short talks on agriculture and food....
A G-20 Challenge: How Do We Get More Food from Less Water?
Agriculture strains the world's supply of fresh water. The question is how do we feed a hungry planet without tapping out the water supply? The link below describes the topic of water that will be brought up at the upcoming G-20 meeting in Germany covering optimal country policies and water preserv...
Two Scientists, Two Different Approaches To Saving Bees From Poison Dust
Two scientists disagree over how to save America's bees, necessary for all the food we eat, from neonicotinoid-coated seeds....
TV show to promote farming as ‘cool’ for youth
Four young farmers, two each from Kenya and Tanzania, are part of the first agriculture reality TV show, Don’t Lose the Plot, where participants will battle it out for a $10,000 prize. The show is an endeavour to change the perception of farming among Kenyan and Tanzanian youth in an effort to mak...
Venezuela Is Starving
Once Latin America’s richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls....
School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says
Up to 3 million children risk going hungry during the school holidays, leaving them vulnerable to malnutrition and undermining their education and life chances, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has warned....
Fall armyworm spreads to East Africa
As millions of east African farmers seek to recover from a devastating drought, they face a new threat – the fall armyworm. The pest has been recently detected in Kenya and is suspected to have entered the country from Uganda. It is also known to be present in Burundi, Ethiopia and Rwanda. ...
Urban farming produces more than food: social networks are a key spinoff
Urban farmers not only develop the kinds of friendships they can draw on during tough times. But they also develop broader networks with other farmers, with NGOs, with government and with local markets that allow them to build a career....
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