COVID-19 has put the world's economies on pace for the most dramatic contraction since the Great Depression. With the world's major economies on track for the largest quarterly decline in history, Canadian farmland is an ...
Environment
Jun 1, 2020
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Changes to the vegetation cover of land surfaces constitutes the biggest cause of increasing carbon dioxide emissions after the use of fossil fuels. Particularly in Africa, forests and bushland are continuously cleared for ...
Environment
Mar 11, 2020
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Growing more climbing beans, as opposed to lower-yield bush beans, could help increase food security in sub-Saharan Africa as demand for food increases, climate change becomes more pronounced, and arable land becomes scarcer, ...
Environment
Mar 5, 2020
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It is well-established that biodiverse ecosystems generally function better than monocultures. Ecologists at the University of Zurich have now shown that the same is true on a larger scale: Having a mix of different land-covers ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2020
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A U.N. report released last week found a quarter of the world's carbon emissions come from the food chain, particularly meat farming. This has prompted calls to sharply reduce emissions from agriculture and to feed the world ...
Environment
Aug 16, 2019
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The global population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—but how will we feed all these people? Roughly one-third of the world's arable land suffers from lack of accessible iron, rendering it inhospitable to staple ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 9, 2019
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You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the staple crop takes up an area five times the size of the UK, and 85% of that area is used for animal ...
Environment
Apr 24, 2019
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In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu.
Environment
Feb 24, 2019
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A model developed by researchers at The University of Queensland could address soil problems that cost Australia's wheat producers almost $2 billion a year.
Environment
Oct 29, 2018
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