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To improve access to locally grown food and help prevent disruptions to supply chains caused by climate change, we need to support farming on the fringes of cities.
Aquaculture is endangering the marine environment, threatening the livelihood of small-scale fishers and food security.
An ancient relationship between plants and fungi could be used in sustainable agriculture. But there’s still a lot we don’t know, and new research suggests these fungi can sometimes do more harm than good.
It’s one thing to come up with food security plans. But implementing them is tough.
Developing countries could leapfrog industrial agriculture systems by moving to agroecology.
A new analysis explores what making space for nature means for our global food production systems.
Desertification is a problem of global proportions. If action isn’t taken now, it will accelerate and fuel further migration and conflict.
In Maasai communities women have no autonomy to make decisions about their nutrition and that of their children.
As luxury housing developments swallow up agricultural land, they also diminish our food security and health.
Foraging and gathering food can play a huge role in feeding people.
As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, rice plants produce fewer vitamins and other key nutrients. This could worsen hunger, malnutrition, child stunting and other diet-related health problems.
Sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, bread and hash browns. All are accounted for.
South Africa’s land reform debate must not lose sight of the real issue: how to provide enough food to feed its people.
Did Rachel Carson catalyze the organic farming movement, as many advocates claim? Or would she reject their ban on synthetic fertilizer and see organic as an inefficient way to feed the world?
Honeybees receive a lot of attention, but the first North American bee to be listed as an endangered species is a wild bumble bee. Wild bees are vital pollinators, and some are declining rapidly.
Cutting the program formerly known as food stamps would hurt low-income Americans and the whole economy.
Africa’s declaration to boost agriculture on the continent has seem some progress but a lot still needs to be done.
Civil conflict, displacement, rising food prices, and climate change all cause food insecurity in Nigeria.
New research finds more CO₂ can actually make most plants smaller in the long-term - but the story for crops isn’t so simple.
Top contributors
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor of Food Policy, City St George's, University of London
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Researcher in sustainable food systems, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Fellow in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Food Systems Research and Partnerships, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Climate Scientist and Researcher, University of Cape Town