Agriculture & Nutrition
Food waste spotlight
Articles on food waste by Thompson Reuters writers....

New protocol aims to cut trillion-dollar food waste bill
There is the start of new global mechanism called the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard to map the extent and the reasons for food loss and food waste across the world....
As populations swell and water becomes scarce, food prices could double: report
Climate change is affecting production while land and water grow more scarce....
Farmers hold keys to ending poverty, hunger, FAO says
With recent data showing that 793 million people still go to bed hungry, ending hunger and poverty in 15 years is the next development challenge that world leaders have set for themselves....
Diabetes was once a problem of the rich. Now it belongs to the poor.
Poverty is an important factor, as people in poorer countries have a harder time accessing healthy foods. ...

30 indigenous crops promoting health and contributing to food security
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), just twelve crops provide 75 percent of the world’s food. Three of these crops, rice, maize, and wheat contribute to nearly 60 percent of the protein and calories obtained by humans from plants. Since the beginning of the 20th century,...

Tiny forage fish at bottom of marine food web get new protections
Sardines, herring and other small fish species are the foundation of the marine food web — they're essential food for birds, marine mammals and other fish....
Farming for a small planet: Agroecology now
The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment. Industrial agriculture is chara...

The strange and surprising debate over how to help a malnourished kid
It used to be common knowledge: Malnourished kids need more protein to thrive. Then came a scathing paper in the Lancet in 1974 called "The Great Protein Fiasco." Filled with sarcasm, it argued that the nutrition community's fixation on protein was a waste of time and money....