Resources Tagged: Food Security

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  1. Climate change and food security. What are the risks and how can we prepare?

    2017-11-15
    Climate Change Food Security Risk Assessment Risk Management Resilience

  2. Plant Nutrition for Food Security - A Guide for Integrated Nutrient Management

    2006-01-20 An expanding world population and the urgency of eradicating hunger and malnutrition call for determined policies and effective actions to ensure sustainable growth in agricultural productivity and production. Assured access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is essential for individual...
    Plant Nutrition Food Security

  3. Food Security and the Role of Fertilizer in Supporting it

    Abstract -Procedia Engineering, 2012 The number of undernourished people in the world remains unacceptably high at about 925 million. Global food security issues exist now, and are especially of concern looking forward as world population is expected to increase by about 35% over the next 40...
    Fertilizer Food Security

  4. Food Security Assessment

    Food aid has been and continues to be an important tool for the international community to fight hunger in low-income countries, and the US is the dominant food-donor country. However, the effectiveness of food aid could be improved by increased coordination between donor groups, more transparent...
    Food Aid Resources Food Security Hunger Food Supply Nutrition Nutrition Surveys

  5. Scientists see role for insects and ‘orphan crops’ in human diet

    Clive Cookson DECEMBER 6, 2017 12 Remarkably few plant and animal species dominate global agriculture and food production. Cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry make up most of the livestock sector, while wheat, maize, rice and soya account for 60 per cent of the world’s total crop output. Fewer than...
    Food Security Underutilized Crops

  6. Crops For the Future

    MISSION To develop solutions that diversify agriculture using underutilised crops. OUR GOALS To secure a greater role for underutilised crops in global agriculture, especially in developing regions of the world. Through our research, provide trusted knowledge on underutilised crops. With our...
    Underutilized Crops Food Security

  7. Food Security and Nutrition Network

    The FSN Network website engages community members through a food security and nutrition capacity-building hub where we share knowledge, resources, and promising practices. As we learn from each other, we identify gaps and develop solutions, thus propelling the field of food security and nutrition...
    Food Security Health and Nutrition

  8. Agriculture & Food Security (Journal)

    Agriculture & Food Securityis a peer-reviewed open access journal that addresses the challenge of global food security. It publishes articles within the field of food security research, with a particular focus on research that may inform more sustainable agriculture and food systems that...
    Agriculture Develo... Food Security

  9. SciDev.Net

    SciDev.Netis the world’s leading source of reliable and authoritative news, views and analysis about science and technology for global development. Our mission is to use independent journalism to help individuals and organisations apply science to decision-making in order to drive equitable,...
    Health and Nutrition Nutrition Fisheries Food Security Livestock Farming

  10. Cultivate Abundance

    According to a 2011 study of the prevalence of food insecurity among migrant farmworkersin Georgia, 62.8% did not have enough food. The same study found that the level of food insecurity in this population of migrant and seasonal farmworkers was more than 4 times greater than the general U.S....
    Food Security Farm Workers Latin America and ...