Agriculture needs massive investment to avoid hunger, scientists warn
Fiona Harvey
Group of leading scientists urge investment in sustainable agriculture to solve hunger crisis and reduce global warming
Countries must plan for climate refugees - report
Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday.
The world can feed itself without ruining the planet, study says
Darci Palmquist
Author Jon Foley says feeding a growing world presents a huge challenge.
We must make up ground in the fight against desertification
A global partnership is needed to tackle the desertification that degrades more than 12m hectares of arable land every year, affecting some of the poorest and most food-insecure people
Deep Thinking About the Future of Food
JUSTIN GILLIS
Trying to tap into the best thinking about the future of global agriculture, as I have tried to do in my work as a reporter, can be an exercise in frustration.
River basins could double food production - study
Deborah Zabarenko
* More food possible without water crisis, experts say
* Africa has greatest potential for improvement
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
The New Green Revolution: How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World
Olivier De Schutter, Gaëtan Vanloqueren
UN Photo/Eric KanalsteinA farmer gathers wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. In Brief: The combined effects of climate change, Water systems at risk from growing demand for food - expert
alertnet // Laurie Goering
LONDON (AlertNet) – Efforts to feed an extra 2 billion people by mid-century could lead to widespread destruction of forests, wetlands and other natural systems that protect and regulate the world’s water, researchers warn.
Fifth Of World's Plants Endangered - Global Study
- First global study shows 22 percent of plants threatened
- Agriculture and other human activity pose biggest dangers