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Data & Reports , Environment , Food , Health / 08/08/2017
Dear Lancet, its pesticides that killed children, not lychees

Deepika Lobo Lancet study blaming the lychee fruit for children deaths in India negated by another study that suggests pesticides behind deaths.  The New York Times had published an article in January with the headline “Dangerous Fruit: Mystery of Deadly Outbreaks in India Is Solved” stating th

Cuba, the Urban Agricultural Pioneers

Cuba so drastically reformed its food system that it is best described as a revolution of organic urban agriculture. In the discourse of urban planning and management, Cuba is widely considered to be the pioneer of urban agriculture due to a unique political and social circumstance which necessitate

Business , Food / 04/25/2017
A smart village rises in Bengal, India through agricultural entrepreneurship

Dhruba Dasgupta A Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action program implemented independently through a health, education and employment center has transformed Nandangram village in West Bengal by growing high quality farm produce Socially just entrepreneurship where agriculture can be a mo

The Carbon Footprint of a Cheeseburger

A cheeseburger has the same emissions as about 1/2 a gallon of gasoline. While there are carbon calculators that help you to determine how much carbon emissions are created by your consumption, they just look at all of the emissions that you use directly. They don’t help you to understand h

Cities , Data & Reports , Featured , Food , Migration , SDGs / 03/27/2017
A quiet value chain revolution is sweeping farmers, food & cities

New report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) says that for the first time in modern history, the number of people living in extreme poverty fell below 10 percent of the global population Some keynotes 60% of rice purchased in Nigeria’s urban areas is imported because

Watch: Seed vault holds key to human survival

Among the most important buildings in the world, the Seed Vault holds the key to human survival: more than 880,000 seed samples, the largest collection in the world. Follow world-renowned scientist Cary Fowler into the heart of the Arctic, where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault lies nestled in the fro

Food , Sustainable Development / 03/03/2017
What we need are farms that support farmers, consumers AND the environment

Andrea Basche and Marcia DeLonge U.S. agriculture has trended for several decades — as a result of policy, economics and other drivers — toward systems that are more simplified over both space and time. This has had adverse consequences for food, energy and water. Editor’s note: This Voices

Aid , Food , Sustainable Development / 01/12/2017
US$21 million grant for Mauritania to boost food security

Mauritania to receive US$21 million IFAD grant to boost food security, nutrition and reduce rural poverty A total of 285,600 farmers, particularly women and young people in six regions in southern Mauritania will benefit from a financial agreement signed today between the International Fund for Agri

How “open source” seed producers from the U.S. to India are changing global food production

Rachel Cernansky The Open Source Seed Initiative, inspired by “the free and open source software movement that has provided alternatives to proprietary software,” was created to ensure that some plant varieties and genes will remain free from intellectual property rights and available for plant

Drought-resistant grass to spur milk production

Baraka Rateng’ Struggling East African dairy farmers could benefit from new varieties of high-quality, drought-resistant forage grass known as Brachiaria that boosts milk production by 40 per cent, a report says. The forage grass could enable farmers to increase their incomes, according to experts

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