The vice-chair of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee has argued that Europe should embrace innovative biotechnologies to boost food production while cutting the environmental impact of farming, but environmentalists remain sceptical.
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Using ag-tech, solar energy and Tesla batteries as well as age-old methods like falconry, Jackson Family Wineries has sharply cut water, grid energy and pesticides. 
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En proie à une sécheresse historique, la Californie se dote d’outils de recyclage de plus en plus performants. La société Water Planet va pouvoir mener un projet pilote pour expérimenter son système innovant IntelliFlux. Ce système a vocation à traiter les eaux usées et à les réinjecter dans l’agriculture californienne.
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The Center on Global Poverty and Development joins students and faculty from across the university and connects them with policymakers and business leaders.
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While there has been much recent focus on mass species extinction, a new report shows food staples like coffee and chocolate could also be under threat. But greater agricultural biodiversity can save them.
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La FAO a publié début 2017 une étude intitulée L’Avenir de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture. Tendances et défis (dont l’intégralité n’est disponible qu’en anglais), qui constitue assurément un document de référence. Plus qu’un exercice de prospective à proprement parler, ce document de 180 pages constitue un état des lieux complet et détaillé de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation sur la planète, des grandes tendances qui ont dessiné leur évolution depuis les années ...
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If every city with more than 100,000 people stepped up, they could account for 40 percent of the Paris accord's emissions cuts.
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Why we should think bigger about public health — way bigger.
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Publié en juillet, un article des Environmental Research Letters développe une méthode permettant d'estimer, à partir de bases d
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A new IFPRI report examines climate change’s effect on global nutrition, and how mitigation and adaptation strategies throughout the food system can help.
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The Seasteading Institute claims that libertarian utopia is nearly upon us in the form of ocean colonization. Sea level rise just might get us there.
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Agriculture has released more than 100 billion tons of carbon from the ground, a study finds.
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Climate change has shifted the timing of flooding in European rivers in the past 50 years, causing deluges earlier in the northeast and later around parts of the Mediterranean, scientists said on Thursday.
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Solar farming greatly can improve farmers' livelihoods and impacts, but policymakers are raising concerns about solar panels replacing farmland.
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This report was written with the aim of providing foresight into the drivers of hunger. There are a number of heavy trends that will continue to affect hunger through to 2030 such as economic inequality, population growth, climate change, and natural disasters. There are also a number of drivers, the evolution and impact of which on global hunger are uncertain, such as; possible financial crises, changes in trade and purchasing power, women’s empowerment, food policies, and conflict. These drivers with uncertain trajectories are the ones that can be more successfully targeted through interventions to affect positive change. This IARAN report analyses how these uncertain factors could evolve, and puts forward five scenarios describing what the world might look like in 2030 with regards to global hunger.
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La faim progresse dans le monde, et les atteintes à l’environnement n’arrangent pas la situation, selon l’indice mondial de la sécurité alimentaire (GFSI) publié mardi 26 septembre par l’Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Un article du JDLE.
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Les plantes que nous cultivons sont très différentes des espèces sauvages qui leur sont apparentées. Est-ce le fruit de la sélection naturelle ou d’une volonté délibérée des hommes ?
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La Suisse reste le pays plus le plus compétitif au monde, selon l'étude annuelle du Forum de Davos. Les Etats-Unis et Singapour complètent le podium.
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The number of people suffering from hunger last year rose at the fastest pace since at least the beginning of this century, as conflicts and climate-related issues curbed access to food. Those categorized as hungry increased by about 38 million to 815 million in 2016, accounting for 11 percent of the global population, according to a report from the United Nations. The findings also show that food security has worsened in some places amid economic slowdowns, while 13 percent of adults are obese.
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This paper, based on research conducted in the framework of the project TISD (Transformative Investment for Sustainable Development) which brings together key development actors to contribute to the
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By 2027 the world could be facing a 214 trillion calorie deficit, says Sara Menker, founder and chief executive of Gro Intelligence, an agricultural data technology company. In other words, in just a decade, we won't have enough food to feed the planet. We've long known that we might reach a point where w
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La tempête Harvey, qui après avoir dévasté Houston, a frappé violemment la Louisiane – rappelant les heures sombres de 2004 et de l’ouragan Katrina – soulève à nouveau les interrogations sur la contribution du changement climatique à ce type de catastrophes. Mais quelle est l’origine de ces sinistres ? Que sait-on réellemen
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