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Early warning, early action: The innovations changing food crisis management
There are many challenges to ending hunger and famine, but food security practitioners are developing innovative solutions that enable earlier and more evidence-based responses to food crises, and help communities build resilience to climate change and disasters....
Microbiome experts to speak at World Economic Forum
Three Cornell University faculty members are presenting ideas about tiny things to a gathering of influential thought leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Microbiomes, the combined genetic material of microorganisms in a particular environment, too small to be seen with th...
The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light.
Today in the U.S., vertical farms of various designs and sizes exist in Seattle, Detroit, Houston, Brooklyn, Queens, and near Chicago, among other places....
Scale up or cut back? Humanitarian aid grapples with growing funding gap
This week, the UN announced that $22.2 billion would be required to meet the needs of an estimated 92.8 million people affected by conflicts and natural disasters in 2017. Current funding trends suggest that aid agencies will be lucky...
Listen: Food Insecurity-a cause and consequence of conflict
In a world where conflict affects so many communities, it is important to recognize the connection between food insecurity and social unrest. Kimberly Flowers, Director of the Global Food Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), was brought to Rome by U.S. Miss...
Dial ‘N’ for Nutrition? A Landscape Analysis of What We Know About m-Nutrition, m-Agriculture and m-Development
Mobile phone technology has the potential to initiate behavior change and facilitate the long-term maintenance of new behaviors. This paper reviews the existing m-agri and m-health interventions. The purpose of this review is to assist would-be implementers and evaluators to understand the landscape...
Latin America has most unequal land distribution, Colombia fares worst, Oxfam study says
BOGOTA - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land, aid group Oxfam said on Wednesday. Colombia, where two thirds of agricultural land is concentrated in just 0.4 percent ...
Tackling hunger requires addressing the challenge in fragile states
Political instability and climate change continue to threaten global efforts to end hunger and poverty. By 2030, two-thirds of the world’s poor will be living in ...
Hungry Venezuelans flee in boats to escape economic collapse
WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao — The dark outlines of land had just come into view when the smuggler forced everyone into the sea. Roymar Bello screamed. She was one of 17 passengers who had climbed onto the overloaded fis...
You may be higher up the global wealth pyramid than you think
Pop quiz: Where do you think you fall on the global wealth pyramid? The answer may surprise you... See full story at http://www.econ...
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