Decades of industrial agriculture have caused environmental and social damage across the globe. Soils have deteriorated and plant and animal species are disappearing. Landscapes are degraded and small ...
A globalized food system has its obvious benefits staring at us from the grocery store shelves: fresh red strawberries no matter the season and flash-frozen seafood available thousands of miles from ...
Beyond humanity’s reliance on agriculture to produce the food we need to survive, one in eight people depend on the food and agriculture system for their livelihoods. Veris Wealth Partners believes ...
Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world’s land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet potato and potato. They account for the vast ...
The agricultural industry may be producing more food than ever before, but it is also damaging the climate, harming the soil ...
Patti Naylor farms with her husband, George. She participates in the Civil Society and Indigenous People's Mechanism at the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. Many technologies have ...
The Abia state Ministry of Agriculture has launched the Agriculture Database System to increase agricultural productivity and food security. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Cliff Agbaeze, at the ...
“A system is ostensibly an expedient way of accomplishing something; a structure that’s established to serve some sort of utility, some sort of purpose. If we’re talking about a system like animal ...
For millennia, the Maya people of Guatemala have been practising a unique agricultural system that fuses sustainability, climate resilience and environmental preservation. Based on the ...
Aleksandra Tymczak studies the berry and honey industries in Alberta’s agricultural system and discusses the challenges and ...