http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/06/discussing-climate-cities-and-food/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/06/discussing-climate-cities-and-food/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:14:54 +0000 Brian Kahn http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34840 Last week, the Earth Institute and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society hosted a discussion on cities, food and climate. What were people saying? Find out in this Storify recap of reactions from across Twitter!]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/03/06/discussing-climate-cities-and-food/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/27/from-birmingham-to-bamako-how-farmers-deal-with-drought/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/27/from-birmingham-to-bamako-how-farmers-deal-with-drought/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:01:53 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=29829 A look at the tools and technologies farmers in Mali use to enhance their decision making in the face of droughts and other climate risks.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/08/27/from-birmingham-to-bamako-how-farmers-deal-with-drought/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/12/daniel-hillel-originator-of-high-efficiency-irrigation-to-receive-world-food-prize/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/12/daniel-hillel-originator-of-high-efficiency-irrigation-to-receive-world-food-prize/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:32:02 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27862 Daniel Hillel, an adjunct senior scientist at Columbia University's Earth Institute, has been awarded the World Food Prize for his work in conceiving and promoting water-saving methods that have increased crop production on arid lands in 30 countries.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/12/daniel-hillel-originator-of-high-efficiency-irrigation-to-receive-world-food-prize/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/24/climates-services-must-help-us-understand-risks/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/24/climates-services-must-help-us-understand-risks/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:00:23 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23166 The point is setting priorities right, and for an agency like the World Food Programme, our focus is of course vulnerable people in the most vulnerable countries, countries where climate change is a multiplier of hunger risk. –- WFP's Carlo Scaramella, in the fifth in a series of video interviews.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/24/climates-services-must-help-us-understand-risks/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/01/wasting-food-wasting-water/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/01/wasting-food-wasting-water/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:37:23 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=15933 The world is teetering on the edge of a food crisis due to the growing population, soaring food prices, and water scarcity, yet a shocking one third of the food produced around the world goes to waste.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/01/wasting-food-wasting-water/feed/ 24 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/03/30/new-program-tackles-climate-threats-to-food-security/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/03/30/new-program-tackles-climate-threats-to-food-security/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:19:46 +0000 Francesco Fiondella http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/?p=1624 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/03/30/new-program-tackles-climate-threats-to-food-security/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/02/15/getting-back-on-track-ending-global-hunger-and-undernutrition/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/02/15/getting-back-on-track-ending-global-hunger-and-undernutrition/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:54:40 +0000 Jessica Fanzo http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=1693 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/02/15/getting-back-on-track-ending-global-hunger-and-undernutrition/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/28/food-miles-fair-miles/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/28/food-miles-fair-miles/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:28:20 +0000 Tristan Jones http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/?p=1445 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/01/28/food-miles-fair-miles/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/27/changing-the-urban-relationship-to-food/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/27/changing-the-urban-relationship-to-food/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:46:46 +0000 Mariapaola Sutto http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=614 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/27/changing-the-urban-relationship-to-food/feed/ 4 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/14/the-stuff-of-sustainability/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/14/the-stuff-of-sustainability/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 20:46:05 +0000 Steve Cohen http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=389 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/14/the-stuff-of-sustainability/feed/ 0