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From Land to Sea: Are Floating Farms the Answer to Food Security?

From Land to Sea: Are Floating Farms the Answer to Food Security?

On a bright, breezy autumn day, I make my way past road works and round-abouts to the shining waters of Rotterdam harbor. It is a mere 10-minute walk from the station. I find myself staring

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The Age Of Regeneration: America’s Green Farming Revolution

The Age Of Regeneration: America’s Green Farming Revolution

The big idea now animating food futurologists is “regenerative agriculture”. Named in 1989 by an organic farming evangelist, Bob Rodale, the idea is to grow food in ways that achieve multiple benefits simultaneously, as soils

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree: The Farmer Politician

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree: The Farmer Politician

Fruits and vegetables are called “specialty crops” in America’s farm bill. One woman in Congress is working to change that, and make agriculture in the US carbon-neutral. “The food, nutrition and hunger system is a

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75 Pivotal Public Policies: Norman Borlaug’s Mexican Pilot Succeeds

75 Pivotal Public Policies: Norman Borlaug’s Mexican Pilot Succeeds

The rapid increases in agricultural production and efficiency achieved through a series of research technology transfer projects in the 1950s and 1960s have been variously called the ‘Green Revolution’ or the ‘Third Agricultural Revolution’, and

Biodiversity
75 Pivotal Public Policies: China’s Grain For Green Program

75 Pivotal Public Policies: China’s Grain For Green Program

Planting trees is increasingly fashionable among policymakers, not least as a way to counter the climate-changing effects of carbon entering the atmosphere. The largest reforestation programme in the world is the Grain for Green program,

Biodiversity
Plenty More Fish. Can Underwater Innovation Help End Hunger?

Plenty More Fish. Can Underwater Innovation Help End Hunger?

Stephane Farouze has an even more improbable story than Alfred Jones, Ewan McGregor’s scientist in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. While that $35m-grossing romantic comedy about efforts to populate desert wadis with Scottish salmon focused on

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How To Avoid Another Food Emergency. Lessons From COVID

How To Avoid Another Food Emergency. Lessons From COVID

From Paris to Pyongyang, shoppers the world over responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by stripping supermarket shelves. Nissin Foods, the Japanese company whose founder invented the now ubiquitous instant noodles, has seen its share price

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Soup Kitchen Confidential. Feeding America’s Hungry During COVID

Soup Kitchen Confidential. Feeding America’s Hungry During COVID

“We needed a radically different approach,” says Kathryn Garcia, New York City’s Sanitation Commissioner and Food Czar, recalling how she and colleagues set about feeding the city’s vulnerable over the pandemic, adding that traditional soup

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Tackling Food Insecurity. How China Found A Policy That Works

Tackling Food Insecurity. How China Found A Policy That Works

In developing countries, food insecurity following the outbreak of disease has often been more fatal than the disease itself. Pandemics such as Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and MERS all had negative impacts on food

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Singapore Sprouting. A Pioneering Ag Tech Policy

Singapore Sprouting. A Pioneering Ag Tech Policy

Singapore has an impressive history of succeeding against the odds, emerging as a global economic and financial powerhouse out of the most unpromising conditions when it secured its independence after the Second World War. Becoming

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