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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.