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Taxonomy Archive: Food security
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Does Climate Change Affect Food Safety?
Infographic on climate change and food safety from the Global Climate and Health Alliance
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food Recovery Act
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s Food Recovery Act takes commonsense steps to reduce food waste while helping feed millions of Americans.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Introducing commonsense bill to standardize food date labeling
The current dizzying array of date labels on food products—such as “sell by,” “use by,” and “expires on”— confuses consumers and contributes to 90 percent of Americans prematurely tossing perfectly safe food
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is Climate Change Turning the World’s Crops Toxic?
A newly-released report from the UN has found that extreme climate conditions around the world may be having a detrimental effect on our crops. In the face of elevated temperatures, certain crops are susceptible to produce more chemicals than normal in a bid to defend themselves. This accumulation of chemicals could be potentially ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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China is leading the way on climate change, and the US should be ashamed
China will soon surpass the U.S. to become the world’s largest economy. And now it is poised to overtake this country by yet another metric: environmental protection. In an unexpected development, China — known for its choking urban pollution and notorious Three Gorges Dam — has introduced new dietary guidelines that seek to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy oceans, healthy people
A groundbreaking study released in the journal Nature last week underscored something many of us have long known to be true: around the world, human health is inextricably linked to the health of the oceans. When the oceans suffer – from threats like climate change and overfishing – people suffer too.This new study shows that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Food and nutrition security in the Australia-New Zealand region: impact of climate change
Food and nutrition security in the Australia-New Zealand region: impact of climate change
20 Apr 2018 |
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Agricultural biodiversity, social-ecological systems and sustainable diets
The stark observation of the co-existence of undernourishment, nutrient deficiencies and overweight and obesity, the triple burden of malnutrition, is inviting us to reconsider health and nutrition as the primary goal and final endpoint of food systems. Agriculture and the food industry have made remarkable advances in the past ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation
Recent studies show that current trends in yield improvement will not be sufficient to meet projected global food demand in 2050, and suggest that a further expansion of agricultural area will be required. However, agriculture is the main driver of losses of biodiversity and a major contributor to climate change and pollution, and so ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate hotspots: key vulnerable regions, climate change and limits to warming
Defining and operationalizing Article 2 of the UNFCCC remains a challenge. The question of what is dangerous climate change is not a purely scientific one, as danger necessarily has a subjective dimension and its definition requires judgment and precaution. The papers in this special issue of Regional Environmental Change attempt to ...