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Taxonomy Archive: food/crops
20 Apr 2018 |
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Reducing the environmental impact of dietary choice: perspectives from a behavioural and social change approach
Climate change is recognised as a significant public health issue that will impact on food security. One of the major contributors to global warming is the livestock industry, and, relative to plant-based agriculture, meat production has a much higher environmental impact in relation to freshwater use, amount of land required, and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Hidden Cost of Hamburgers
The Center for Investigative Reporting presents the hidden environmental costs of meat consumption and animal products. The video presents comparisons between transportation-related emissions and emissions associated with livestock, while making suggestions for individual and community level behavior change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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“Reaching a tipping point”: Climate a key issue at World Health Assembly
Josh Karliner discusses how climate change — widely considered to be the greatest health threat of the century — was a major point of focus this year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Africa: Over 43 Million Africans Face Extreme Poverty Due to Climate Change By 2030
This brief article presents the potential impacts of climate change on the health and economic wellness of African populations. It covers the World Bank projections regarding the climate change impacts in 2030.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change campaigners welcome China’s plan to halve meat consumption
Climate change campaigners have welcomed new guidelines which urge Chinese consumers to eat 50 per cent less meat, even though food experts say enticing the country’s growing urban middle classes away from beef and pork will be a huge challenge.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change: Assessing effects on health and wealth of populations
Can the health consequences of climate change be at the center of discussions at this year’s climate summit in Paris? Very possibly. Pope Francis’ encyclical letter and The Lancet’s excellent report on the topic give us hope. Now the World Federation of Public Health Associations (whose Federation’s Pages we publish in JPHP) ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ditch Coal: The Global Mining Impacts of the UKs Addiction to Coal
Coal is at a crossroads in the UK. On the one hand, the UK’s dirtiest power stations burn vast quantities of coal, with little or no regard for the human and environmental impacts that this has. On the other, the UK Government has announced an intention to “consult” over proposals to close remaining coal fired […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Don’t Eat Your Children’s Food
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee issued what I consider to be a truly stellar, 572-page report. We are now in a period of cogitation, consideration and commentary during which everyone with skin in the game gets to tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture why they should embrace or renounce specific elements in the report.
20 Apr 2018 |
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High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food, energy, urban, and environmental systems. Growing populations, rising incomes, and expanding cities will converge upon a world where ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food security under climate change
Using food prices to assess climate change impacts on food security is misleading. Differential impacts on income require a broader measure of household well-being, such as changes in absolute poverty.