How changing your diet can help fight the climate crisis
Climate change is driven by and impacts the world's food systems.
Environment
Jul 01, 2022
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News tagged with sustainable agriculture
Promising uses of non-destructive sensors to aid food security and enhance sustainable agriculture
Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise ...
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2022
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Ending child hunger and food insecurity needs to be a top priority in Canada as well as globally
Achieving food security, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture are key to reaching one of the United Nations' most critical Sustainable Development Goals: Zero Hunger.
Social Sciences
Jun 08, 2022
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How do smallholders transform to sustainable production in North China?
Smallholders are the main body of China's agricultural producers, numbering about 203 million, accounting for 98% of all kinds of agricultural production enterprises. They often invest excess resources in the production process, ...
Agriculture
May 25, 2022
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Perennial rye crop shows potential for greener agriculture
Annual crops are the farmer's bread and butter, the crops they rely on most, but at least one type of perennial grain is proving much more beneficial to the environment.
Plants & Animals
Apr 21, 2022
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How to improve crop management in organic horticulture
Sowing crops with agroeconomical services, that is, with benefits for the global ecosystem in crop practices is an efficient strategy for improving environmental sustainability. Now, an international study reveals that the ...
Ecology
Feb 10, 2022
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Firm transforms waste as Morocco faces trash 'time bomb'
Recycling in Morocco may be in its infancy, but the North African kingdom is making steady progress, helped by a Swiss firm that specialises in processing organic waste.
Environment
Dec 19, 2021
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How increasing the yield potential depends on the row-type in barley
Agriculture is the major player in contributing to global food security. Increasing our crop productivity is currently a challenging task due to the limitations of climatic change and decreasing of agricultural land. Sustainable ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 06, 2021
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Were the ancient Maya an agricultural cautionary tale? Maybe not, new study suggests
Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall—but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable agricultural practices and high food yields for centuries.
Archaeology
Nov 16, 2021
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Sustainable farming: There's no one solution
Sustainable agriculture will not be achieved by one universal solution. A meta-analysis by the University of Basel shows that the current focus on no-till farming does not achieve the desired results. A sustainable system ...
Agriculture
Oct 14, 2021
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