New Report Which Merges Community and Expert Knowledge Could Revolutionize...
Dr. Michael Hamm is a human nutritionist, interested in community food security and sustainable food systems. He is the Michigan State University (MSU) C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture...
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Dr. Walter Pengue is an agricultural engineer specializing in improving plant genetics ecological economics, and agroecology. He is on the Steering Committee for and is a chapter author of the new...
View ArticleVolver a las raíces
El aire refrescante de la mañana, el sol en el horizonte elevándose, pasos solitarios entre hileras de cultivos. Lo único que se escucha es el rumor de unas zapatillas que rozan la tierra. De pronto,...
View ArticleVote With Your Wallet and Change the Food System
Dr. Gunars Platais is a Senior Environmental Economist at the World Bank where he works to integrate environmental concerns into the policies of countries in Latin America, Africa, and Europe. He is a...
View ArticleUN Environment wins prestigious award for new work on food, agriculture and...
On the occasion of World Food Day, the World Future Council announced the 2018 Future Policy Award winners. The Future Policy Award is the only award which honours policies on an international level....
View ArticleCreating a Common Language to Solve Hidden Costs of Food System
Dr. Jes Weigelt is the Head of Programmes at the TMG Think Tank. Weigelt is also a chapter author for the new report from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food...
View ArticleOpinion | Cutting Waste & Keeping Food Fresh with Packaging Made from Plants
With food traveling an average of 4,200 miles from farm to consumer, it is no surprise that retailers and food processors are concerned with protecting the freshness of food as it travels. [Read full...
View ArticleFixing Food Metrics – a call for nexus thinking and the application of the...
Our food systems are incredibly complex, diverse and interlinked by trade, climate and a host of other factors that respect no national (or indeed ecological) borders. Today’s food systems range from...
View ArticleUN Environment’s TEEBAgriFood – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity...
TEEBAgriFood presents a path-breaking, globally applicable food systems evaluation framework, which for the first time presents all wider benefits and costs associated with all relevant dimensions...
View ArticleThe future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not...
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