Tag: Food security
How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in...
Brexit food shortages are not inevitable – keep calm and don’t...
Jamie Stone, Loughborough University
With no Brexit deal in place and March 29 fast approaching, fears are growing that the UK will struggle to maintain...
Climate change will make rice less nutritious, putting millions of the...
Kristie Ebi, University of Washington
Rice is the primary food source for more than 3 billion people around the world. Many are unable to afford...
Would Rachel Carson eat organic?
Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University
Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,”...
The GOP’s poor arguments for doubling down on SNAP’s work requirements
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan
Republicans aim to tighten the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s work requirements as part of the farm bill Congress is debating.
These...
Let them eat carp: Fish farms are helping to fight hunger
Ben Belton, Michigan State University; Dave Little, University of Stirling, and Simon Bush, Wageningen University
Over the past three decades, the global aquaculture industry has...
To restore our soils, feed the microbes
Matthew Wallenstein, Colorado State University
Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer.
What...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
