Agriculture & Nutrition
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....
With bees on the brink, World Bee Day seeks to raise awareness
Organizations across the globe on Sunday marked the first-ever World Bee Day launched by the UN to raise awareness about the fate of pollinators. Over the past decade, bees and other pollinators have witnessed a steady decline, with experts blaming several factors, including insecticides, climate c...
Save the bees! Lawmakers join the battle to save pollinators
A pair of Michigan lawmakers introduced bills last week that aim to protect bees and other pollinators that are crucial to Michigan's agriculture industry. (May 20 is #WorldBeeDay.)...
TED Talk: Why Bees Are Disappearing
Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years. So why did colonies recently start dying en masse? ...
Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
This project from The World Bank Group, “Agriculture in Africa: Telling facts from Myths,” contains 14 studies exploring some facts about Agriculture in Africa that many experts and policy makers consider self-evident truths. But the rural landscape of the continent has evolved, as has the Afric...
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