Search criteria
Information Types
Subjects
-
Agricultural Biodiversity (1002)
Countries
Date
 |
> | KB | > | Results |
Search Results
The search was executed to find both database records and web content.News Headlines
#1200142019-02-19
Towards a “Great Food Transformation”
Unsustainable food systems are threatening human health and environmental sustainability. We need to change the way we farm—and our diets. There are more of us, we’re getting wealthier, and we’re demanding more protein-rich foods, such as meat. In the long run, this is simply not sustainable.
News Headlines
#1200162019-02-19
Bees brought Bavarians together. And they have a lesson for us all
Last week, Bavarians forced their state legislature to change farming policies with the most successful petition in the state’s history. And while the law proposed by the petition covers a range of measures, it’s no surprise that campaigners’ rallying cry quickly became “save the bees”.
Meeting
#587717th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
18 - 22 February 2019, Rome, Italy
News Headlines
#1199892019-02-18
Will biodiversity become the new organic?
There are signs more actors in the food system are focusing more on biodiversity to try to make their businesses more sustainable. just-food's US columnist Victor Martino explores.
News Headlines
#1199912019-02-18
Even without GMOs, Uganda can beat food insecurity, New FAO boss
Uganda is a country with a huge potential when it comes to agriculture. It’s blessed with a lot of water and fertile soils which can guarantee sustained production and food security. But when we look at the statistics in terms of food and nutrition, we realise that there is still a lot of work t ...
News Headlines
#1200022019-02-18
Virtual fences, robot workers, stacked crops: farming in 2040
It is 2040 and Britain’s green and pleasant countryside is populated by robots. We have vertical farms of leafy salads, fruit and vegetables, and livestock is protected by virtual fencing. Changing diets have seen a decline in meat consumption while new biotech production techniques not only hel ...
News Headlines
#1199682019-02-15
Prickly pears: 'humble' cactus brings hope to Algeria
For generations Algerians like the Gueldasmi family have barely eked out a living growing prickly pear fruits, but thanks to the cactus's new found virtues their lives are steadily improving."Now, my future is here. There is no need to go abroad" to find work, said Fethi Gueldasmi, 40, whose fam ...
News Headlines
#1199732019-02-15
How to eat to save the world
There is not a country in the world that is not grappling with the serious health and environmental consequences of its citizens’ diets. There has to be a better way to feed everyone well and sustainably.
News Headlines
#1199332019-02-14
Climate pioneers: how small farmers could be leading the way towards sustainable agriculture
Agriculture is a leading cause of climate change, but it is also undeniably affected by it. Farming must therefore change in order to keep up with global demands, while reducing its environmental impact. Without these necessary changes, it’s estimated that by 2030, the impacts of climate change ...
News Headlines
#1199342019-02-14
Food finally features in the climate debate. Now what?
After years of neglect, agriculture finally found a place in the climate talks in 2017. Its absence during the lifespan of the United Nations negotiations on climate change was always conspicuous.
News Headlines
#1199372019-02-14
Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists
Buying organic food is among the actions people can take to curb the global decline in insects, according to leading scientists. Urging political action to slash pesticide use on conventional farms is another, say environmentalists.
News Headlines
#1199062019-02-12
FAO to release “The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture” report
On Friday, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is set to present to the media the findings of the upcoming The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture report – to be launched on 22 February.
News Headlines
#1198792019-02-11
Between food and biodiversity
Cristiana Pasca Palmer : How does the weaver ant help to deliver the food on your plate? The answer might not be immediately obvious, but this feisty predator is critical to maintaining balance in the global food chain: eating and repelling fruit flies that could otherwise destroy lucrative and ...
News Headlines
#1198532019-02-08
Organic Green New Deal? Comprehensive climate change policy must address the American food system
In the face of worsening climate chaos and massive economic inequities wreaking havoc on the nation, a broad coalition of social justice and environmental organizations and visionary politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are building momentum for a Green New Deal. All electe ...
News Headlines
#1198282019-02-07
Feature: Returning to organic farming: next generation of Chinese farmers
Wang Xin, 33, is a landscape designer by profession and farmer in practice. The strawberries coming from his organic plantation in the southern outskirts of Beijing are believed by his clients to be "the best of China."
News Headlines
#1198292019-02-07
Collective of 400 EU stakeholders call for a ‘common food policy’
400 agriculture-related EU stakeholders, convened by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), has mapped out a new governance architecture for food systems in a bid to create sustainable food systems under a ‘Common Food Policy’.
News Headlines
#1197902019-02-06
Pope offered $1m to go vegan for Lent
The Pope is being offered $1m (£764,000) for a charity of his choice if he goes vegan for Lent. Pope Francis is being urged to give up meat and dairy for the six weeks before Easter by experts who say the move is the single biggest way to cut a person’s carbon footprint.
News Headlines
#1197912019-02-06
Oil palms need one-ninth of land used by other vegetable oil crops
A palm oil task force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released the results of a study showing that palm oil production is the most efficient in terms of land use compared with other vegetable oils, which need nine times more land to produce the same amount of oil.
News Headlines
#1197942019-02-06
No degree, no problem for this rice innovator
Despite lacking a college or university education, farmer Pham Van Nhut in Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has made great contributions to agricultural development in his community.
News Headlines
#1198022019-02-06
For a healthier planet and people, we must fix our broken food system
Food is not only the most fundamental of human needs, but also one of the closest connections humans have with the natural environment. Along with the air we breathe and the water we drink, the food we eat is also a leading driver of public health.
News Headlines
#1198032019-02-06
The inconvenient truths behind the 'Planetary Health' diet
Can we eat our way not only to better health, but also to a better planet? That is the question addressed by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (PDF), which launched its global Planetary Health dietary recommendations at the United Nations.
News Headlines
#1197742019-02-05
Where do the best strawberries grow?
Agricultural production benefits enormously from flower-visiting bees and other flower-visiting insects. Because of their supply of flowering plants and opportunities for nesting, hedgerows and the edges of forests represent important habitats for pollinators
News Headlines
#1197462019-02-04
Promoting regenerative agriculture through women farmers
Just inland from the coast of Half Moon Bay, green, rolling hills extend in every direction. There are aces of tall grass dedicated to cattle, lamb, pigs, horses and chickens where they can graze and move about freely.
News Headlines
#1197522019-02-04
Quand agriculture et biodiversité vont de pair
Léo Rouquairol, viticulteur sur la commune de Villeveyrac, est persuadé de l’intérêt de favoriser la biodiversité au sein de ses parcelles viticoles.
News Headlines
#1197132019-02-01
Urban agroforestry in Budapest
Our edible forest garden experiment in Budapest is part of a doctoral research project on urban agroforestry. It was constructed in partnership with Budapest’s 14th District Council and the social Degrowth cooperative Cargonomia.
News Headlines
#1196832019-01-30
We Created Our Insect Pests – OpEd
We tend to think of insects and bugs with the words “harmful “and “pests” unaware that worldwide, just a little bit of fraction, no more than 20 percent of all insects, cause harm to humans or damage crops.
News Headlines
#1196302019-01-28
Can we ditch intensive farming - and still feed the world?
Food production around the world must rise by half in the next 30 years to sustain a global population expected to top 10 billion by 2050.
News Headlines
#1195992019-01-25
Putting food under the microscope
You might think that microorganisms - aka microbes - contaminate food, cause disease and are generally something to be avoided. But we shouldn’t be afraid of the microbes in our food…
News Headlines
#1195732019-01-24
Cutting down on ammonia emissions in the EU: for healthier and more sustainable food production
Ammonia emissions – ammonia released into the atmosphere in high concentrations pollute the air we breathe and represent a significant threat to human health and the environment. It is time to act. The EU has already put in place measures to control air pollution and improve ambient air quality. ...
News Headlines
#1195752019-01-24
Our food system is no longer fit for the 21st century. Here are three ways to fix it
Food is part of our cultural identity and, at the most basic level, essential to our survival. Over the past 200 years we have seen unprecedented development of agriculture and the global food industry, which now brings many people reliable, affordable access to an extraordinary variety of food.
News Headlines
#1195532019-01-23
Where does our food come from? Here's why we need to know
Despite the central role that food plays for humanity, we as consumers tend to know very little about it: where did it come from? Who produced it? How was it made? What were the environmental and social costs of supplying it? These are questions that few of us can answer.
News Headlines
#1195262019-01-22
Africa: Eat Plants, Save the Planet
United Nations — While the modern agricultural system has helped stave off famines and feed the world's 7 billion residents, the way we eat and produce food is posing a threat to future populations' food security.
News Headlines
#1195222019-01-21
Eat Plants, Save the Planet
While the modern agricultural system has helped stave off famines and feed the world’s 7 billion residents, the way we eat and produce food is posing a threat to future populations’ food security.
News Headlines
#1194502019-01-17
World's coffee under threat, say experts
The first full assessment of risks to the world's coffee plants shows that 60% of 124 known species are on the edge of extinction. More than 100 types of coffee tree grow naturally in forests, including two used for the coffee we drink.
News Headlines
#1194682019-01-17
As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation
Brazil’s “Agricultural Miracle” credits industrial agribusiness with pulling the nation out of a recent economic tailspin, and contributing 23.5 percent to GDP in 2017. But that miracle relied on a steeply tilted playing field, with government heavily subsidizing elite entrepreneurs.
News Headlines
#1194132019-01-16
The global race for groundwater speeds up to feed agriculture's growing needs
Water is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the world. Water tables have been falling in many regions for decades, particularly in areas with intensive agriculture. Wells are going dry and there are few long-term solutions available —a common stopgap has been to drill deeper wells.
News Headlines
#1194172019-01-16
Forget lab-grown meat and blockchain. This is the future of food
The future of food is often defined by cutting-edge technologies like lab-grown meat or blockchain. Mike Lee, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based food product developer and co-founder of Alpha Food Labs, argues for a simpler solution — we need to grow and eat different plants.
News Headlines
#1194242019-01-16
How arable farmers can help prevent ‘mass extinction’ of pollinators
Arable farming needs to change in order to halt declines in biodiversity and prevent one of the worst mass extinction events in history, a leading US entomologist has warned.
News Headlines
#1193752019-01-15
Sheep dung: Fertilizing Rajasthan’s fields
Rajasthan’s grazing sheep help protect biodiversity and combat desertification. But nomadic pastoralism is risk of dying out due to climate change, growing populations and increasing farmland.
News Headlines
#1193592019-01-14
Forgotten Crops of the Past
Dr. Jesus Garcia gets calls all the time from people who’ve found some long-forgotten plant growing in a patch of dirt somewhere in the hot dry desert around Tucson, Arizona. Over the years, he’s become something of a plant detective, having identified a white pomegranate growing in a grandmothe ...
News Headlines
#1193712019-01-14
The Honey Olive Grove: A Sustainable Solution
It has been launched on the EU platform, Climate Innovation Window, which embeds the EU Horizon2020 project BRIGAID, aimed at effectively bridging the gap between innovators, investors and end-users in resilience to floods, droughts and extreme weather.
News Headlines
#1193152019-01-10
Forests, Farms, and the Global Carbon Sink: It’s Happening
Arthur “A.G.” Kawamura’s family has been growing fruits and vegetables in the US state of California for three generations, but they’ve never seen heat like this. “We’ve had two once-in-a-millennium heatwaves in the past two years,” says Kawamura. “The climate is changing, and farmers have to ch ...
News Headlines
#1193032019-01-09
FAO Names Argan Water System in Morocco as Global Agricultural Heritage
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) designated an agricultural system based on argan in Morocco as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) site, in November. The decision came following a proposal by Morocco’s Oasis and Argan Zones National Agency (ANDZOA).
News Headlines
#1193062019-01-09
'New' apple and pear varieties found in Wales
A total of 73 previously unrecorded varieties of apples and pears believed to be unique to Wales have been discovered by researchers. About 200 trees were DNA-tested in the two-year project to find, catalogue and preserve new varieties.
News Headlines
#1192872019-01-08
Fighting Against Climate Vagaries, Bengal Farmers Practice Conservation
Going against the general preference for HYV rice, some marginal farmers in Bankura have started conserving, documenting and propagating traditional varieties.
News Headlines
#1192552019-01-04
Using the sun and agricultural waste to control pests
Farmers spend a lot of time and money controlling weeds and other pests, and often have to turn to chemical fumigants to keep the most destructive pests at bay. Farmers also wrestle with what to do with low-value byproducts of crop production, such as skin, seeds and hulls from fruit, vegetable ...
News Headlines
#1192612019-01-04
Woodland buffers help maintain bird communities in forest edges, finds study
Woodlands in agricultural fields surrounding a protected area maintain functionality of a wintering bird community, according to a recent study.
News Headlines
#1192272019-01-03
Government urged to prioritize regenerative agriculture to help achieve SDGs
Programmes Officer at the Kumasi Institute of Tropical Agriculture (KITA), Kwame Ansah Baffour has called on the government to consider prioritizing regenerative agriculture to aid in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
News Headlines
#1192342019-01-03
A Regenerative Food System is Both a Means and an End
The land-sparing argument is mostly flawed when it promises to save land for wildlife or for carbon sequestration. Continued intensification of the food system will lead to increased pressure on nature as well as the continued erosion of food culture.
News Headlines
#1191972018-12-27
European wheat is not climate resistant enough, study finds
European wheat lacks climate resistance, says an international team of European scientists. European farmers must take a new course to ensure climate-resilience of vital crops such as wheat.