This week's Science features a series of
articles on food security, including an Editorial, Review articles, a series of Perspectives, a Policy Forum, and a special news package.
Not exact matches
In an
article posted
on The Atlantic's website last week, Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail, addressed the relationship between farming in the Southwest and climate change — both
food production and
food security have been cast into question with the growing scarcity of water and unpredictable growing seasons and weather patterns, such as drought.
In the
food security article, «The team found that, in the model, sunshade geoengineering leads to increased crop yields in most regions, both compared with current conditions and with the future projection of doubled carbon dioxide
on its own.»
They are
on an admirable mission to «promote the use of insects as human
food and as animal feed in assuring
food security,» according to a fascinating
article by Emily Anthes called «Lovely grub — are insects the future of
food?»
The Guardian
article, «Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land,» describes how plantations not only fail to deliver
on the promise of jobs, but also hamper
food security in the long run: