FOOD: 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 ArticleMillions face starvation as world warms, say scientists
World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food experts Corn in the hands of a farmworker in South Africa. Photograph: Greatstock Photographic...
View ArticleReverend Malthus and the Future of Food
My article in Sunday’s paper about the world’s food supply offered portents of a more difficult human future. Factors like population growth, improved diets in developing countries and biofuel...
View ArticleREDD+ Strategies Lack Plan For Agriculture
Even as countries cite farm expansion as main cause of forest loss, research finds gap between climate 'promises' and farm policies The majority of countries participating in a major global effort to...
View ArticleA New Vision for Sustainable Agriculture for Rio+20 Summit
The new vision for sustainable development that will emerge this week from the Rio+20 Earth Summit must recognize the significance of agriculture in economic growth, food security, poverty reduction...
View ArticleGlobal warming will cause starvation of millions in Africa and Asia by 2050
Tweet London, Apr. 14 (ANI): Millions of people might face starvation by 2050 as a result of extreme temperature globally. A report has warned that people in Africa and Asia could also become...
View ArticleFOOD: How to fix a "broken" supply system
JOHANNESBURG, 1 June 2011 (IRIN) - The current droughts in Europe and floods in the USA threaten yet another rise in cereal prices in the next few weeks, and serve as a reminder of the changing...
View ArticleCan We Feed the World?
02/04/2013 By Gordon Conway LONDON – In the 1960’s, the Green Revolution – which included the development of high-yielding crop varieties, the expansion of irrigation infrastructure, and the...
View ArticleFood Security Raises the Obvious: Can We Feed 9.6 Billion by 2050?
World Population Day 2013 came and went with little fanfare this year. There were no organized efforts to draw attention to the annual United Nations observance, which underscores population issues....
View ArticleIn a world hungry for biofuels, food security must come first
Growing crops for food and fuel together can work but farmers and policymakers must prioritise hungry people and think local A worker shows Jatropha seeds in Manica province, Mozambique. Photograph:...
View ArticleInternational Development Committee publishes report on Global Food Security...
(Source: The United Kingdom Parliament) MPs on the International Development Committee are calling for concerted action to curb food wastage in the UK and for expansion of DFID's bilateral nutrition...
View ArticleGreen Technology: Feeding the population without killing the planet
An increasing population has always meant that at some point access to food would be restricted. Tina Carmillia discusses how technology may have not always been the smartest choice, but in hindsight...
View ArticleWorld Food Prices Likely To Remain Volatile And High, Says UN
ROME -- Prices for rice, wheat and other key foods are expected to remain volatile and possibly increase – and poor farmers and consumers particularly in Africa will be hurt most, the U.N. food...
View ArticleSell NZ meat, British butchers told
British butchers should sell New Zealand lamb rather than local lamb to combat global warming, a study says. The study, by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, has found food...
View ArticleBuy NZ meat, British butchers told
British butchers should sell New Zealand lamb rather than local lamb to combat global warming, a study says. The study, by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, has found food...
View ArticleSell Kiwi meat, British butchers told
British butchers should sell New Zealand lamb rather than local lamb to combat global warming, a study claims. The study, by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, has found...
View ArticleUN Warns Food Prices Are Going To Stay Dangerously High And Volatile
ROME (AP) — Prices for rice, wheat and other key foods are expected to remain volatile and possibly increase — and poor farmers and consumers particularly in Africa will be hurt most, the U.N. food...
View ArticleUK MPs call for transparency on land deals to protect smallholder farmers
Report urges full implementation of UN voluntary guidelines and urges DfID to support agricultural extension services Issiaka Ouedraogo, a smallholder farmer in Ivory Coast, dries cocoa beans. British...
View ArticleFeeding an Ever-growing Population
World population just surpassed the big round number of 7,000,000,000. Mankind reached its first billion just as the 19th century got underway. That feat of fecundity required eons. It took us just 12...
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