Food Production

Water Enough for All?

Carl Safina | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Food Production, Climate Change Refugees, Water Shortage, Nitrogen, Food Shortage, Infant Mortality, Low-Water-Table-in-India, The Green Revolution, Green News
Carl Safina

The Green Revolution was accomplished largely by doubling the amount of irrigated land. Hundreds of millions of wells now reach into the earth like straws in a thick drink on a hot day. But as with many things, we're taking more water than we're getting.

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Food and Environment Smorgasbord

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Herbicides, Food Production, Sustainable Food, Food and Population, Herbicides Food, Food Technology, Food Crops Herbicides, Raising Resistance Film, Green News
Bill Chameides

What happens in Las Vegas may stay in Las Vegas, but what is sprayed on industrial farms does not necessarily stay on those industrial farms.

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Rising Number of Farm Animals Poses Environmental and Public Health Risks

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Food Production, Population Growth, Health Risks, Dairy, Farm, Milk, Environment, Animals, Green News
Danielle Nierenberg

Farm-animal production provides a safety net for millions of the world's most vulnerable people, but given the industry's rapid and often poorly regulated growth, the biggest challenge will be to produce meat in environmentally and socially sustainable ways.

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Can Fast Food Be 'Real' Food? An Interview With Burger King

Anna Brones | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Food Production, Sustainable Fast Food, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Local, Burger King, Fast Food, Food, Real Food, Interview, Burgerville, Burgers, Video, Food News
Anna Brones

Being someone who, for the most part, strictly abstains from fast food, I was interested to see what someone who plans the menu of a nationwide chain had to say about the process behind what they serve.

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Give a Wo(man) a Fish... Or a Farm... Or Both

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Partners in Health, Food Production, Global Health, Hunger, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Recovery, Food Security, Impact News
Christy Turlington Burns

As it was explained to us, there are three root causes that lay at the core of malnutrition in the area: a lack of jobs, a lack of education, and lastly, environmental degradation.

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Saki Knafo

Thailand's New Rice Policy Could Lead To International Food Price Crisis, Analysts Warn

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Food Production, Usaid, Thailand, Central America, Somalia Famine, East Africa, Fews Net, Djibouti, High Food Prices, Famine, East Africa Famine, Africa, Haiti, West Africa, Somalia, Famine in Africa, Food Prices, World News

A program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is warning of a possible spike in international rice prices, a d...

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Misuse of Food and Climate Data at Forbes

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Crop-Production, Food Production, Patrick Michaels, Forbes Magazine, Climate Denial, World Food Programme, Water, Global Food Crisis, World Hunger, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Peter H. Gleick

The heart of Patrick Michaels' Forbes piece seems to be that climate change will be good for food production, not bad. This is in contradiction to actual science on food and agriculture.

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A Secret Weapon for Fighting Climate Change: Empowering Women

Sigourney Weaver | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Food Production, Drought, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Sexism, Gender Equality, Education, Green News
Sigourney Weaver

You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat, but the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women.

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Feeding The Future: Finding Food For 10 Billion People By 2100

Foreign Policy | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Food Production, World Population, Hunger, Rising Food Prices, World Hunger, Food Distribution, 2100, Food Prices, Impact News

The world's demographers this week increased their estimates of the world's population through the coming century. We are now on track to hit 10 billi...

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Elise Foley

Coburn, Conservative Group Feud Over Ethanol Subsidy

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Food Production, Energy, Debt, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Corn, Agriculture, Energy Production, Ethanol Subsidies, Deficit, Tax Incentives, Tom Coburn, Hunger, Grover Norquist, Ethanol, Americans for Tax Reform, Ethanol Subsidy, Tax Increases, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Coburn, one of three Republican members of a bipartisan group aiming to shrink the deficit, took aim on Tuesday at the conserva...

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The Epidemic Strikes Again

Erik Rasmussen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Epidemic, Climate Change, Farmers, China, Food Production, Farming, Davos, Agriculture, Fao, Climate Crisis, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News
Erik Rasmussen

China is just the latest victim of the climate epidemic that it is taking its toll around the globe with palpable, often immediate disasters and human suffering.

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Food Production A Rare Bright Spot In Gloomy Economy

AP | DINESH RAMDE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Cheese, Farming, Commodities, Commodity Prices, Commodities Farming, Food Industry, Food News

MILWAUKEE — While the recession took a toll on manufacturing and other industries, one part of the economy has remained a bright spot over the p...

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Addressing Global Food Production

Jose W. Fernandez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Global Food Crisis, Gmos, Biotechnology, Global Food Production, Food Politics, Genetically Modified Food, Genetically Modified Organisms, Biotechnology Crops, Genetically Modified Crops, Food News
Jose W. Fernandez

One way we can expand the benefits of biotechnology is to develop regulatory systems based on science, not politics. Impractical legal obstacles are stopping genetically-enhanced crops from saving millions from starvation.

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Could Agriculture Replace Golf For Suburban Communities?

GOOD | Allison Arieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agriculture Golf, Farming Suburban Community, Food Production, Golf, Agriculture, Agriculture Suburban Community, Golf Suburban Community, Urban Development, Urban Agriculture, New Urbanism, Andres Duany, Green News

In cities, agriculture might be able to take the place of vacant lots. And in suburbia? Well, in 2008, the New Urbanism evangelist Andrés Duany, of D...

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UN To Examine Meat-Climate Link Amid Claims Of Exaggeration

BBC | Richard Black | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Meat Climate Change, Meat Production, Carbon Emissions, Factory Farms, Meat Eating, Food, Climate Change, Un, Meat Emissions, Meat, UN Meat Climate, Green News

UN specialists are to look again at the contribution of meat production to climate change, after claims that an earlier report exaggerated the link....

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The Global Food Market (VIDEO): Why Do Some Eat Well While Others Starve?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Local Food, How to Feed the World, Food Market, Food Supply, Food Imports, Denis Van Waerebeke, Global Food Market, Malnourishment, Food Explorts, Food Politics, Food, Video, Green News

It's baffling that in some parts of the world, there's an oversupply of food, while elsewhere people are suffering from malnourishment. Denis van Waer...

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Vertical Farms (PHOTOS): The Future Of Sustainable Farming?

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Food, Vertical Farming, Vertical Farms, Farming, Urban Farming, Slidepollajax, Green News

The idea for vertical farming was born in 1999 in a Columbia University classroom when Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and m...

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A Taco, Deconstructed, Shows Globalization Of Food Production

GOOD | Twilight Greenaway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Urbanlab, Local Food, Food Miles, Global Food, David Fletcher, Food, Taco Origins, Tacoshed, Taco, Juan?S Taco Truck, Food Production Globalization, Taco Ingredients, The California College of the Arts, Green News

Look closely enough at anything and you can start to see the sum of its parts. Even, for instance, a single taco, which, when examined recently by a g...

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'What's On Your Plate?' (VIDEO): Documentary Engages Kids In The Food Process

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Local Food, New York City, What's on Your Plate Documentary, Food, Sadie Safiyah, New York City Food System, What's on Your Plate, Video, Green News

It all started with one delicious cherry tomato. Catherine Gund's documentary, "What's On Your Plate," puts two 11-year-old kids in the center of th...

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Plastic Packaging Is Good for the Earth? A Flawed Assumption

Daily Finance | SARAH GILBERT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Energy, James McWilliams, Composting, Food, Food Waste, Plastic Packaging, Fruit Shelf Life, Food Production Energy, Plastic Wrapped Food, Green News

Plastic-wrapped fruits, says James McWilliams in the New York Times' Freakonomics blog, are a good thing, not just for ensuring my son eats his apple ...

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Interactive Map: How A 4C Rise Will Affect The Planet

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Rising Sea Level, Water, Climate Change, Map, Carbon Dioxide, Extreme Weather, Forest Fire, Global Warming, Global Temperature, Green News

A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other l...

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What's The Fairest Way To Eat Food?

The Atlantic Food Channel | By Helene York | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Food, Fair Food, Food Politics, Green News

Over the past two years, student interest in food issues has skyrocketed. Undergraduates write us requesting detailed supply-chain information for num...

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Help! My Daughter's a Vegan

Donna Fish | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Food Production, Food, Vegetarians, Parenting and Food, Vegan, Healthy Living News
Donna Fish

Am I supposed to be happy about this?  For the first time as a parent, I find myself almost getting into fights about food. I know it pushes my b...

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Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Big Ag, Agribusiness, Caged Animals, Humane Treatment of Animals, Meat Industry, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News

Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a boar...

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If Pets Are Protected From Animal Abuse, Why Not Farm Animals?

The Atlantic Food Channel | By Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Production, Farm Animals, Factory Farming, Farms, Animals, Industrial Agriculture, Animal Abuse, Green News

Most people know NFL quarterback Michael Vick jeopardized his career and went to prison for violating animal cruelty laws. What they likely don't real...

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