How Changing Diets Leave Us Exposed to War, Extreme Weather and Market Turbulence
The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they hurt.
Bagels in New York. Cakes in Beijing. Instant noodles in Jakarta. Daily habits for billions, yet just a...
21 Dec 2022
Harnessing the power of wild potatoes to feed a climate-challenged world while reducing agrochemical use
Lima, Peru, December 21, 2022 – As the global population burgeons past 8 billion and climate change makes it harder to grow food, scientists in South America are tapping the power of wild potatoes to breed disease-resistant and...
21 Dec 2022
Biodiversity protection “window of opportunity is closing,” warn scientists at COP15
Authorities are trying to adopt a new set of goals to prevent and reverse the loss of nature. At COP15 in Montreal, delegates are discussing a global biodiversity framework with clear targets for overexploitation, pollution and...
16 Dec 2022
‘Without Nature, We Have Nothing’: Un Chief Sounds Alarm at Key Un Biodiversity Event
The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.
The conference is...
6 Dec 2022
Science Against Climate Change: Unlocking Wild Genes in Wheat
A newly bred “black-spiked” wheat with a hardiness likened to the strength of mountains is among new developments in agri-food science, which are humanity’s strong arm to offset the noticeably degrading effects of climate change that are crippling essential global food networks.
5 Dec 2022
Jabal: The New Wheat Scientists Say Can Withstand Extreme Heat and Drought
The variety is a cross between commercial and wild wheats – bred in a bid to develop crops that are more resilient to the climate crisis.
A new drought-tolerant variety of durum wheat has been created as part of an international...
4 Dec 2022
Reversing Tree Diversity Decline: Why We Need All the Species We’ve Got
New report shows importance of tree diversity for ecosystems and people in a changing climate.
17 Nov 2022
Adapt or Starve: COP27 Spotlights Agriculture Challenges and Solutions in the Face of Climate Change
Small-scale farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they only receive 1.7 percent of climate finance even as they are forced to cope with droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.
This...
12 Nov 2022
