Agriculture & Nutrition
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...
Taking a space-age approach to food security
Satellite technology can play a key part in meeting the world's ever-growing need for food, through the rise of high-resolution imagery. The World Bank and many NGOs are using satellite imagery to tailor programs for smallholder farmers....
Gender gaps: Bane of Africa’s agricultural R&D
Africa’s agricultural production is negatively affected by gaps in gender-responsive agricultural research, experts say. The gaps include fewer agricultural female researchers than male counterparts. Gender-responsive research addresses the distinct needs and priorities of men and women. Accordi...
Bolivia’s indigenous women cope with climate change
Women in Bolivia must adapt to climate change as they work to feed their families throughout the year...
Cornell-Led Project Awarded $35 Million to Research Crop Vital to Africa’s Food Security
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom government collectively awarded $35 million to a Cornell project researching and promoting the use of cassava, a carbohydrate-rich tuber plant, in sub-Saharan Africa....
Can nuclear technology zap hunger in Central African Republic?
Tucked away on the University of Bangui campus in the capital of Central African Republic, a portacabin surrounded by palm trees shelters neat rows of test-tubes filled with green shoots. Here scientists are running a laboratory using advanced nuclear-derived techniques to find a solution to one of...
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