Tag: food3
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What’s Needed for a Sustainable, Equitable and Healthy Food System?
A report integrates the environmental, health, and social impacts of agriculture into one framework to help us make informed decisions about food.
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UN Resolution Would Protect Land and Water Rights of Rural People
This proposed declaration includes a number of rights, and specifically mentions that water resources in mountain ecosystems should be protected against pollution from mining activities.
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Almond Orchards in California: Healthy or Hazardous?
Why California almonds get such a bad rap.
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Corn, Obesity, and Navigating Healthy Eating Choices as a Parent
Our children learn to eat from us. Eat better, fill your plates with dark leafy greens and your kid is bound to follow.
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How Climate Change Will Alter Our Food
As the world population continues to grow, global demand for food could increase dramatically by 2050. Yet the impacts of climate change threaten to decrease the quantity and quality of our food supplies.
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In India, Swapping Crops Could Save Water and Improve Nutrition
Replacing some rice with less thirsty crops could help to sustainably feed a rapidly growing population.
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Food Web: Trade Networks May Be Key to Solving Hunger
Columbia’s Center for Climate Systems Research is building a network analysis program that can pinpoint trouble spots in the global food trade system.
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Upping Our Game: Crop Insurance Project Proves Wildly Successful
A weather index insurance tool is graduating from research project to commercial product.
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Swapping Where Crops are Grown Could Feed an Extra 825 Million People
It could also reduce water stress, according to a new study that includes 14 major food crops from around the world.