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USAID Grant to Enhance Food Security, Sustainability in Cambodia

While the weather, terrain and soil obviously differ, thus bringing differences in available crops, farming a hillside in rural East Tennessee bears many resemblances to farming a floodplain in Cambodia or anywhere else.

16 Nov 2020

New Model Enables Sustainability in Food Supply Chains

It is a long journey from harvesting in the field to the cooked dish that reaches the dinner table. The food supply chain covers all those processes and the actors involved in satisfying the consumer's needs.

29 Oct 2020

Aerial Imagery can be Used to Detect Food Security Threats for African Farmers

New research shows how a combination of imagery from mobile phones, drones and satellites can be used to clamp down on banana threats.

23 Oct 2020

Study quantifies game changing environmental effect if animal food is replaced by plant-based alternatives

Replacing Meat Could be a Game Changing Environmental Move

22 Oct 2020

Growing Demand for Food Might Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Concentration of dinitrogen oxide - also referred to as nitrous oxide - in the atmosphere increases strongly and speeds up climate change.

20 Oct 2020

Shifting to Plant-Based Foods can Help Cut Down on Carbon Emissions

For seven years now, the University of California system has been working hard to reduce its carbon emissions as part of its Carbon Neutrality Initiative.

9 Oct 2020

Consistent Mercury Concentrations Found in Ringed Arctic Seals

Ringed seals and other Arctic marine mammals are important in the diet of Arctic Indigenous peoples.

8 Oct 2020

Study Assesses Regional Impact of Phosphorus Supply Chain Dynamics

Phosphorus is essential in agriculture to maintain higher production levels, where it is applied as a fertilizer.

8 Oct 2020

Rising Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agriculture Increases Climate Threat

According to the authors of a new study published in Nature, rising nitrous oxide emissions are putting reaching climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy.

8 Oct 2020

Global Dietary Recommendations Could Help Reduce Environmental Degradation

If Americans adhere to global dietary recommendations designed to reduce the impact of food production and consumption, environmental degradation could be reduced by up to 38%, according to a new paper published in the journal Environmental Justice.

7 Oct 2020