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Mighty agro-lobby threatens reforestation of Amazon
While deforestation has slowed, restoring Brazil's rainforest is still meeting powerful opposition.
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Too many still struggling to meet food and nutrition goals
High food prices could prevent millions of people, particularly children, from escaping poverty and hunger.
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Stemming rural depopulation in Ethiopia
Swiss architects aim to stem rural depopulation and increase prosperity with semi-urban village centres.
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Future of food in Japan
Uncertainty clouds the future for healthy food-loving Japanese. Can food self-sufficiency be increased?
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Sahel’s food crisis gets swift response but no long-term answers
Governments are acting earlier this time, but this region's food insecurity is destined to continue.
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Creating an ecology of hope
In a candid Q&A, author Frances Moore Lappe talks about how to shift our mental map so as to sync human nature with nature’s rhythms.
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Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries
As affluent markets reach saturation, multinational food and drink firms are opening up new frontiers among people living on $2 a day.
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Home-grown food in schools for a green economy
Brazil is linking public sector food procurement to local family-based small-scale agriculture.
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Maya nut could boost resilience to climate change
The Maya nut is one of the few tree species able to adapt to predicted climate changes in tropical forests.
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Real costs of hydropower in Cambodia
While the benefits of expanding hydropower are undeniable, such development carries steep costs that impact the livelihoods of local people and should not be ignored.
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Japan’s urban agriculture: cultivating sustainability and well-being
Farming in cities can boost local ecosystem services, from food provisioning to heat-island mitigation.
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Food crises: architects needed
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food argues that hunger is a political question, not just a technical problem to be solved with short-term fixes.
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Food insecurity and the conflict trap
What can we learn from the World Food Programme's investigation into the link between food insecurity and conflict?
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Below the radar innovation and entrepreneurs
A look at how social and niche-based entrepreneurship may be the shape of agricultural innovation systems of the future.
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Famine we could avoid
Is climate change and/or drought to blame for 10 million people on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa?
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Hard to stomach: Two billion now overweight
Hunger, food prices, high ecological impact diets — in a world of so many complex food issues, the era of overweight is probably only just beginning.
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