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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, situated on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, preserves more than 100 million seeds of food crops that originated in over 100 countries.
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International Food Security Assessment: 2012-22
Food security is estimated to improve slightly in 2012 as the number of food-insecure people in the 76 countries covered in this report declines from 814 million in 2011 to 802... More »
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Which fish should I eat?
Despite the relative lack of information integrating the health, ecological, and economic impacts of different fish dietary choices, clear and simple guidance is needed to... More »
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Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Undernutrition
This podcast with Sari Kovats of the Department of Social and Environmental Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was produced by Ashley Ahearn*. It... More »
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Food Insecurity, Worldwide
Broken food system and environmental crises spell hunger for millions. A broken food system and environmental crises are now reversing decades of progress against hunger... More »
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Africover Initiative
The Africover Project is designed to provide a digital, georeferenced database on land cover—and a geographic information reference point for the whole of... More »
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Seafood safety after the Deepwater Horizon...
How sure can the public be about the relative safety of marine-based food products harvested from the Gulf of Mexico following the much publicised Deepwater Horizon oil spill of... More »
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Food Security / Insecurity: Call for Articles
The intent of this core article is to encourage the generation of a set of associated articles focused on the challenges and opportunities facing humankind in addressing food... More »
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Climate Adaptation of Rice
Climate Adaptation of Rice Symbiogenics: A New Strategy for Reducing Climate Impacts on Plants Rice–which provides nearly half the daily calories for the... More »
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Are Biofuels Crops Sustainable?
A Sustained Effort New crops produce biofuels, but are they sustainable? Established in 2007, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Bioenergy Science Center (BESC)... More »
Colorado River water supply
Last Updated on 2012-09-11 at 14:20
This curriculum module will look at the Colorado River water supply, climate issues and water extraction issues. We will study the data, the possible consequences to various... More »
Technical Assistance for Agriculture Conservation
Last Updated on 2012-08-22 at 02:38
Summary of USA actions
Agricultural conservation technical assistance has taken on a number of dimensions over its long and continuously evolving history. In the most... More »
International Food Security Assessment: 2012-22
Last Updated on 2012-08-11 at 12:22
Food security is estimated to improve slightly in 2012 as the number of food-insecure people in the 76 countries covered in this report declines from 814 million in 2011 to 802... More »
Agriculture II
Last Updated on 2012-07-26 at 11:56
Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hunter-gatherers secured their food as they traveled in the nearby environment. When they... More »
Bioenergy: Chances and Limits
Last Updated on 2012-07-26 at 11:02
This report from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has come to the conclusion that in quantitative terms, bioenergy plays a minor role in the transition to... More »
Food Security
Last Updated on 2012-07-16 at 20:46
A comprehensive definition of food security that is widely accepted today is that “food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access... More »
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