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Investing in people and evidence for sustainable farming
2013-10-16 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Food security is difficult to pin down. It can be explained simply as access to enough food. But behind that simplicity lies an interconnected web of factors -- from food prices to agricultural practices, nutrition, natural resources, technology, trade and social development. Breaking down such complexity to its component parts is artificial, but is often necessary to gain understanding. It is in that spirit that the collection of articles this week focuses on just one, but fundamental, aspect...
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Sustainable food production: Facts and Figures
2013-10-16 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Advances in agricultural science and technology (S&T) have contributed to remarkable increases in food production since the mid-twentieth century. Global agriculture has grown 2.5--3 times over the last 50 years. [1] This has let food production keep pace with human population growth so that, overall, there are enough calories produced per capita. However, progress toward reducing hunger is variable across the world (see figure 1). Hunger and malnutrition affect every aspect of human development...
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Making sustainable intensification work on sound evidence
2013-10-16 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: A new narrative is slowly taking hold of today's collective thinking about productivity, growth and poverty reduction in developing-country agriculture: the concept of sustainable intensification. Sustainable intensification hinges primarily on practices and technologies that help farmers systematically improve the management of their crops, soil, trees, livestock and water what I will call 'new agronomy'. It is essentially a focused approach to helping farmers simultaneously improve yields...
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Target Unveils Sustainable Product Standard
2013-10-15 07:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Begins with personal care, household cleaning and baby care; cosmetics in 2014.
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Target Unveils Sustainable Product Standard
2013-10-14 07:22:00| Happi Breaking News
Begins with personal care, household cleaning and baby care; cosmetics in 2014.
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