Agriculture & Nutrition
Technology Could Soon Revolutionize Agriculture In Africa
Forbes interviews CIAT's Debisi Araba, the dynamic regional director for Africa at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) about the potential for technology to transform agriculture in Africa....
Are forgotten crops the future of food?
Just four crops - wheat, maize, rice and soybean - provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. But scientists in Malaysia are trying to change that by reviving crops that have been relegated to the sidelines....
Moves to cut emissions could cause more hunger than climate change, study says
Adopting some of the most stringent measures needed to curb climate change across all industries could cause hunger levels to rise by three times as much as global warming itself, according to a study released on Tuesday....
‘Severe decline in bee species threatens food security worldwide’
At a time when many managed and wild-bee species are in a severe decline that threatens food security, researchers from Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and Maynooth University have joined forces with the University of Minnesota, in the US, to tackle diseases affecting pollinators....
Fighting the ‘white cancer’ threatening global food security
Researchers have made a ‘game changing’ shift in our understanding of how plants succumb to high levels of salt in agricultural soils....
Does more food always mean less hunger?
A group of farming experts have questioned calls that increased food production will guarantee a decline in hunger. International researchers reviewed 53 research papers on intensive farming in low and middle income countries and found it brings limited benefits to poor farmers and damages the envir...
Food hub could make locally sourced food more accessible to Edmontonians
A new proposal for a food hub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada could make it easier for farmers to get their product to market — and for shoppers to get access to local food. A city report, to be reviewed by the executive committee on Monday, says the food hub would be a "multi-purpose facility … th...
Ghana launches nationwide census on agriculture
Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo recently launched the census of agriculture to gather reliable data to inform national policy interventions in the development of agriculture in the country. Ghana last held a census of agriculture some 33 years ago and hopes that the 2018 data collecti...
Video: Ways to impact Food Security
The US Agency for International Development created a video that describes challenges people, farmers, and governments may encounter to try to be food secure. This short video Food Security talks about some ways countries can improve agriculture ...
Revealing Food’s Hidden Costs: New Framework for Food and Agriculture
A new report released today offers a ground-breaking platform to evaluate the real costs and benefits—including environmental, health, and social impacts—of our agriculture and food systems....
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