Tags: Food security

UK Government Will Spend More To Support Farm Productivity; NFU Warns To Never Take Food Security For Granted

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 02.21.2023 11:00 AM

The National Farmers' Union president asked for the government's help to protect the homegrown food supply. Read more.

Food Resources Might Completely Be Wiped Out in 27 Years, Affecting Humans Faster Than Climate Change

04.25.2022 05:32 AM

Recent estimates suggest that our planet will stop providing food after 27 years. Read more about this theory and the factors that induce the threatening global crisis.

Microgravity Refrigerator Could Store Food for Astronauts in the Future

05.28.2021 08:41 AM

One of the main challenges of space travel has been food storage. While mankind has been sending people to space as early as 1961, there has never been any refrigerator to keep food cold and fresh during long missions.

New Microbiome Cryobank to Open in the UK, Looks to Tackle Food Crop Security

10.12.2020 09:56 AM

U.K. scientists will be collaborating for a new crop microbiome cryobank to preserve the nation's major food crops' DNA. The platform will include data for sustainability, crop types, soil types, and necessary microbiomes to tackle the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating hunger.

Reintroducing Sea Otters in British Columbia Upset the Balance in Ecosystem

08.20.2020 02:46 AM

Sea otters had once disappeared in British Columbia until they were reintroduced after the fur trade era. However, was the return of thousands of sea otters truly a success story?

Treating Fish as a Public Health Asset, Not a Commodity, Is Key to Food Security

08.05.2020 10:10 AM

One of the answers for food security depends on the attitude towards fish--treating them as a domestic public health asset instead of a commodity--according to a new study.

Global Farming Trends Threaten Food Security, Study Says

07.13.2019 07:32 AM

The team advocate for a trend reversal, that is, care should be taken to diversify agriculture worldwide and make it more ecological

Edible Insects Could Be The Answer For Global Food Security

06.12.2017 19:40 PM

Shifting food consumption habit by consuming edible insects is the answer to food security problem on the global scale, according to a researcher from University of Adelaide, Australia.

Keystone Species Dying Off—Why Losing Beehives and Honey May Be More Concerning Than You'd Think

05.14.2015 12:47 PM

Honeybees are dying en masse all over the globe, and it's not just lovers of honey that should be concerned. These mass deaths will change our dinner plates forever, not to mention raise the cost of eating generally. In a world where food security and hunger are crucially important, this is bad news for everyone.

How Can Soil Erosion Cause Our Doom? Loss of Nutrients Poised to Cause Massive Famine

05.07.2015 20:51 PM

It's not as colorful in an action movie as invaders from other galaxies, for example, but it seems that soil erosion might be just as deadly to humans. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley warn that human food security is at risk from the accelerating rate of soil depletion.

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