Fish farms feed millions of people around the world, but they also consume a lot of fish that are dried or ground up to make aquafeed. Researchers are developing more sustainable alternatives.
This year’s World Soil Day theme is: ‘Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity’.
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Healthy soils are vital for food, biodiversity, and a healthy planet, but this below-ground world is often overlooked. The launch of the State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity Report highlights this.
In understanding women’s physical needs, food security emerged as an important issue.
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Most of the wastewater produced worldwide receives no treatment and the nutrients in wastewater go to waste. Here’s how households can draw these nutrients from urine and use them as fertilisers.
Around 25,000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan.
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Between the 1950s and the present day, there has been a 65% reduction in allotment land in the UK.
People are seen at the Mount Pleasant farmers market in Vancouver, B.C., where measures are in place to limit the number of people permitted at a time due to COVID-19.
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased interest in local food. This demand could be leveraged to help develop community resilience and encourage healthier diets.
South Africa’s dust sources are largely caused by the human response to drought conditions.
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Despite the success of relief efforts by the government and civil society, it’s clear that hunger and food insecurity remain at disturbingly high levels in households.
Fruit production of shea is limited by lack of pollination and this limitation is greater at sites with less tree and shrub diversity.
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Over 820 million people around the world go to bed hungry at night, and that tide is rising. For working to reverse it, the U.N. World Food Program has received the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
Food aid from the World Food Programme arriving in Juba, South Sudan in 2011.
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Locust outbreaks are driven by unusual climatic conditions.
A view of flooded farmland on the riverbank and swelling Blue Nile as its water level rises after heavy rainfall in Khartoum, Sudan
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South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
Vendors sell potatoes in a street market on the outskirts of Nairobi.
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Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
Data on food prices are crucial for political and economic stability but are not easily accessible.
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