Pasture,Cropland and Forest Scenarios in Industrial and Developing Regions
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
Galloway et al., 2004
John Vidal
By 2050 there will be another 2.5 billion people on the planet. How to feed them? Science's answer: a diet of algae, insects and meat grown in a lab
David Fogarty
SINGAPORE, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Extreme heat can cause wheat crops to age faster and reduce yields, a U.S.-led study shows, underscoring the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population as the world warms.
Geoffrey Kamadi
NAIROBI, Kenya (AlertNet) – Satellite technology is coming to the aid of pastoralists in drought-stricken Kenya, with the expansion of a water monitoring system that aims to reduce livestock loss.
Damian Carrington
The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees' ability to navigate
Common crop pesticides have been shown for the first time to seriously harm bees by damaging their renowned ability to navigate home.
Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms
Megan Rowling
Water must be used more efficiently to meet rising food demand from a growing population amid climate-change pressures, experts say.
Washington Post
Karen DeYoung
Fresh-water shortages and more droughts and floods will increase the likelihood that water will be used as a weapon between states or to further terrorist aims in key strategic areas, including the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa, a U.S.
JOANNA M. FOSTER
In 2008 and in 2011, the world was rocked by riots and by revolutions coinciding with spikes in food prices.