Provisions shortage sparked Arab spring
Timing of violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011, and earlier riots in 2008, coincides with large peaks in global food prices. In 1798 32 year-old British economist Malthus...
View ArticleLand, water scarcity threaten food security - U.N.
MILAN (Reuters) - A rapidly growing population, climate change and degradation of land and water resources are likely to make the world more vulnerable to food insecurity and challenge the task of...
View ArticleUN: farmers must produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed population
A quarter of farmland is highly degraded, according to the first report into the state of the world's land resources Farm workers in Yinchuan, China. Most of the world's available land is already being...
View ArticleSpecial report: Scientists race to avoid climate change harvest
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Charlie Bragg gazes across his lush fields where fat lambs are grazing, his reservoirs filled with water, and issues a sigh of relief. Things are normal this year and that's a bit...
View ArticleLand, water scarcity threaten food security: UN
A rapidly growing population, climate change and degradation of land and water resources are likely to make the world more vulnerable to food insecurity and challenge the task of feeding its people by...
View ArticleCan science help improve food security?
Farming and retail experts warn that this year's poor UK's harvest is going to trigger a rise in food prices on supermarket shelves. The past 12 months have seen a range of extreme weather not just in...
View ArticleGLOBAL: New ways needed to grow food
Photo: Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationAgricultural production will have to be intensified, rather than expanded, says a UN reportDURBAN, 28 November 2011 (IRIN) - In another 40 years, many parts of...
View ArticleFarming needs major shift, says FAO
PARIS|LONDON: World farming needs a "major shift" to more sustainable practices as intensive crop production since the 1960s has degraded soils, depleted groundwater and caused pest outbreaks, the...
View Article'Peak Farmland' Is Here, Experts Predict, As Crop Yields Rise And Population...
* Rising yields, slowing population means farmland peaks * Food crop area could shrink by 10 pct in half a century * Cropland 2.5 times France can return to nature by 2060 By Alister Doyle, Environment...
View ArticleThe race for climate change crops
Soaring food prices, civil unrest and worries about weather have spurred a global race to create new crops more adaptable to climate change and capable of much greater yields. Charlie Bragg gazes...
View ArticleFOOD: The Green Revolution's new avatar
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRINFood production needs to keep up with a growing demandJohannesburg, 25 March 2010 (IRIN) - The Green Revolution has a new avatar: transformed Agricultural Research for...
View ArticleBreakthrough in new approach to mining agricultural gene banks for food security
A Research team for ‘Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS)’ has opened global consultations to enrich agricultural innovation for food security. The innovative new approach seeks to...
View ArticleNorway invests $23.7 million in crop diversity to help farmers face climate...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Seedlings in a plant laboratory. 24 September 2013, Muscat, Oman - The government of Norway has pledged $23.7 million to conserve and sustainably manage the world's most...
View ArticleClimate Smart Agriculture can play Adaptation and Mitigation Roles for...
(Source: Office of the President of Guyana) 12th Caribbean Week of Agriculture - 2013 Climate Change and Agriculture Climate Smart Agriculture can play Adaptation and Mitigation Roles for Sustained...
View ArticleHungry for change
Professor Olivier De Schutter. Photo: Mal Fairclough If international trade and aid won't fix hunger and bad nutrition, what will? THE ''silent tsunami'' of the global food crisis was at the height of...
View Article'Green Bullet' Innovations To Address Soaring Population And Climate Change
By Laurie Goering LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks. In...
View Article"Green Bullet" Innovations To Address Soaring Population And Climate Change
By Laurie Goering LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks. In...
View ArticleCrowded Earth: how many is too many?
Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say. As early as 1798,...
View ArticleHow to Feed the World After Climate Change
When my daughter turned 7 last week, we celebrated with a homemade chocolate cake. I wonder whether she’ll be able to do that with her own child someday. Scientists are already warning that chocolate...
View Article"Green bullet" innovations aim to feed world of 9 billion
LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks. In Kenya's Kibera slum,...
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