Food Security

Climate change threatens maize output

Speaking at the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) project annual meeting yesterday in Harare, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister, Perrance Shiri said climate change has brough

Publication Date:

05/04/2018

Source: Zimbabwe Daily

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Agriculture, Maize, Zimbabwe, Food Security, Africa

Climate Change

Changing climate puts, among others, India at risk: global study

Warns that weather extremes can inter alia increase vulnerability to food insecurity

Publication Date:

03/04/2018

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Climate Change, Floods, Extreme Weather Events, Food Security, Global Warming

Poverty

Innovations to overcome the increasingly complex problems of hunger

Hunger has become ever more complex, and therefore efforts to sustainably eradicate hunger and malnutrition depend on policies and programs that match these complexities. Innovations are critical for progress. However, they require increased public and private investments as well.

Publication Date:

01/04/2018

Author(s): Joachim von Braun

Source: Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Tags:

Malnutrition, Food Security, Nutrition, Agriculture, Innovation, India, Global

Food Policy

Indian consumers may get lab-grown meat by 2025

In 2013, the first cultured beef burger (clean meat) was produced and cooked. At that point, the cost of that one patty was USD 375,000.

Publication Date:

29/03/2018

Source: Asian Age (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Animal Products, Food Security, Environmental Security, Food Policy

Environment

Worldwide degradation of land and nature threatens prosperity and wellbeing

The world's prosperity and wellbeing are seriously being threatened by the degradation of land and nature.

Publication Date:

28/03/2018

Source: PHYS

Tags:

Environment, Land, Land Degradation, Biodiversity, Global, Food Security, Asia, Africa

Agriculture

Kalro will get Sh300m to fight armyworm – PS

The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation will receive Sh300 million to fight the deadly armyworm.

Publication Date:

28/03/2018

Source: Star (Kenya)

Tags:

Agriculture, Crop Pests, Food Security, Kenya, Farmers, Africa

Agriculture

Government to conduct census of Agriculture

The Government has begun processes to conduct a Census of Agriculture, to produce and disseminate complete and reliable data for decision making and for monitoring programmes aimed at further devel

Publication Date:

28/03/2018

Source: Ghana Web (Ghana)

Tags:

Agriculture, Development, FAO, Ghana, Food Security, Africa

Climate Change

The role of large—scale BECCS in the pursuit of the 1.5°C target: an Earth system model perspective

The increasing awareness of the many damaging aspects of climate change has prompted research into ways of reducing and reversing the anthropogenic increase in carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. Most emission scenarios stabilizing climate at low levels, such as the 1.5 °C target as outlined by the Paris Agreement, require large-scale deployment of Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).

Publication Date:

26/03/2018

Author(s): Helene Muri

Source: Environmental Research Letters

pp:

1-9

Tags:

Climate Change, Emission Targets, Carbon Capture and Storage, Bio Fuel Crops, Food Security, Land Use, Climate Science

Land

Scientists to publish first-ever land health report

Scientists will publish the first-ever analysis Monday of the global state of land and its ability to sustain a fast-growing human population that relies on it for 95 percent of all food.

Publication Date:

26/03/2018

Source: PHYS

Tags:

Land, Food Security, Global, Agriculture, Mining, Climate Impacts, Climate Change, Soil Resources

Food Policy