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Tag: Food Security
How to Tackle Climate Change, Food Security and Land Degradation
How can some of world’s biggest problems – climate change, food security and land degradation – be tackled simultaneously? Some lesser-known options, such as integrated water management and increasing the organic content of soil, have fewer trade-offs than many well-known options, such as planting trees, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Global Change Biology.
Earth Challenge 2020: Calling on citizens to help support global food supply
A new app widget provides citizens with an opportunity to get involved in one of the world’s most challenging problems: how to provide enough, high quality, nutritious food to the ever expanding global population.
Effects of Potassium Fertilization in Pear Trees
Potassium fertilization effects on quality, economics, and yield in pear orchard
$5.7 million to fight global hunger awarded by Mississippi State-based Fish Innovation Lab
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish at Mississippi State University is awarding $5.7 million in grants to develop innovative approaches for helping solve hunger affecting more than 800 million people worldwide.
Reusing chicken litter shows benefits
Beneficial bacteria in reused poultry litter can reduce Salmonella levels
What are smallholder farms?
Smallholder farms supply majority of world’s food supply but still face poverty.
How did soil salinity affect ancient civilizations?
Saline soils near the Salt River led to many challenges for North American group
Even before COVID-19, many adults over 50 lacked stable food supply and didn’t use available assistance, poll finds
Even before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc with the nation’s food supply and economy, one in seven adults between the ages of 50 and 80 already had trouble getting enough food because of cost or other issues, a new poll finds.
Can newer irrigation techniques save water?
Using technology makes the best out of every drop
How are coastal farmers responding to salty soils?
Saltwater intrusion means farmers must adapt their management practices.
Food prices after a hard Brexit could increase by £50 per week
The effects of Brexit on different food types and what this will mean for families has been measured by research from the University of Warwick.
How does flooding affect farms?
Patience is a virtue for on-farm flood recovery
Aphea.Bio Joins the International Phytobiomes Alliance
Aphea.Bio has joined the International Phytobiomes Alliance as a sponsoring partner, both organizations announce today
How do my food choices affect the environment?
Every action counts – no food is impact-free.
Danforth Center Unveils Robust Line-up for Inaugural AgTech NEXT Summit
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center today announced the preliminary lineup of presentations and panel discussions by innovative thinkers for AgTech NEXT, the bold new food and agtech innovation summit will be held May 4 – 6, 2020 at the Danforth Center in St. Louis, MO.
Report reveals ‘unseen’ human benefits from ocean twilight zone
A new report from researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) reveals for the first time the unseen—and somewhat surprising—benefits that people receive from the ocean’s twilight zone. Also known as the “mesopelagic,” this is the ocean layer just beyond the sunlit surface.
Major NSF-sponsored grant will help researchers discover ways to improve urban sustainability
A new $2.5 million grant will help an interdisciplinary team of researchers analyze innovative approaches to improving urban sustainability. The team will study various approaches to bolstering local food production in Des Moines and the surrounding area and how those approaches could affect nutrition, waste and environmental impacts.
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Climate Change Impacts on Land, Wildfires and Solutions
New Brunswick, N.J. (Jan. 15, 2020) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick Professor Pamela McElwee is available for interviews on climate change impacts on land, including increasing wildfires such as in Australia and California, and solutions. She is scheduled to testify before…
Drones effective tools for fruit farmers
Unmanned aerial vehicles provide reliable, accurate data to growers.
Water management grows farm profits
Study investigates effects of irrigation management on yield and profit
From the farm to the feast
Spark conversation with fun facts about Thanksgiving foods!
Project partners researchers, librarians and AI to fight hunger
Ceres2030, a global effort led by International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is employing machine learning, librarian expertise and cutting-edge research analysis to use existing knowledge to help eliminate hunger by 2030.
What is the difference between square and round hay bales?
Advances in technology allow for baling larger amounts of hay, faster
Upcoming: Embracing the Digital Environment Meeting
Agronomists, crop and soil scientists from around the world to meet in San Antonio
Optimizing fertilizer source and rate to avoid root death
Study assembles canola root’s dose-response curves for nitrogen sources
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss IPCC Report on Climate Change and Land
New Brunswick, N.J. (Aug. 8, 2019) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick Professor Pamela McElwee is available to comment on the United Nations report released today on Climate Change and Land that she co-authored. McElwee, an associate professor in the Department of Human…