Food & Agriculture

The other inconvenient truth: how agriculture is changing the face of our planet

Managing famine risk - linking early warning to early action

Reducing waste of food: a key element in feeding billions more people

The vertical farm: a keystone concept for the ecocity: Dickson Despommier at TEDx Warwick 2013

Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption

Implications of regional improvement in global climate models for agricultural impact research

Climate change rewrites world wine list   The scary hidden stressor   

Vulnerability to climate change: adaptation strategy & layers of resilience

Climate change growing threat to food and biodiversity   Soil to Sky Infographic

Agriculture and Food Production contribute up to 29% of global GHG emissions

CO2 could reduce crop yields    Supporting climate-friendly food production

New plant protein discoveries could ease global food and fuel demands

Recalibrating food production in the developing world: global warming will change more than just the climate

Advancing agriculture greenhouse gas quantification   

The FAOSTAT database for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

Climate adaptation as mitigation: the case of agricultural investments

The green revolution is wilting    Small-scale farmers and climate change

Overcoming the risk of inaction from emissions unceratinty in smallholder agriculture

Providing low-budget estimations of carbon sequestrations and greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural wetlands  

Global Food: want not, waste not     Global Food Report: waste not,  want not

New plastic electronics can greatly reduce food waste worldwide 

Cereal Secrets: The world’s largest grain traders and global agriculture

Global grain production at record highs despite extreme climatic events  

The era of cheap food may be over    Food: how bad is the crisis?

Water for wealth and food security    Water and Food Nexus - trends and development of the research landscape

Feeding a thirsty world: challenges and opportunities for a water and food secure future

Study offers new hope for increasing global food production, reducing environmental impact of agriculture

Natural variation in abiotic stress and climate change responses in Arabidopsis: implications for 21C agriculture 

Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warns scientists

When the chips are down: potato, maize and rice crop yields set to fall

How Business Intelligence and data make for a more efficient farm

Desperately seeking: a sustainable, climate friendly food system    Welcome to dystopia

Feeding the world while protecting the planet        Food: The Hidden Driver Of Global Politics

Millions more will go hungry as world struggles to respond to unprecedented food crises  and sharply rising prices

World One Poor Harvest Away From Chaos    New projection shows global food demand doubling by 2050

Study highlights food risk highlights    Plant research funding crucial for the future

The future of food   The future of food and farming: challenges and choices for global sustainability

Can we continue to feed the world while doing less harm?

Issues associated with 'least toxic pesticides' applied as a last resort  

Adapting to climate change in the food industry   Adapting agriculture to climate change

A risky proposition: crop insurance in the face of climate change

Hope in new scientific insights to avoid global agricultural tragedy 

Despite drop from 2009 peak, agriculture land grabs still remain above pre-2005 levels

Why curbing agriculture's climate impacts is a growing challenge

Spatial organization and drivers of the virtual water trade: a community-structure analysis 

Small clique of nations found to dominate global trading net of food, water    FAO Food Price Index

Achieving food security in the face of climate change    Urban poverty, food security and climate change  

After the flood: a beginning farmer on the front lines of extreme weather

Resilient livlihoods: disaster risk reduction for food and nutrition security    Locust Forecasting

Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks     Agriculture's Role in Climate Change

Building Resilience: Bridging Food Security, Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Call for action on Climate-Smart Agriculture      FAO-EC project to promote climate-smart farming

Impacts of climate change on farming and food security   Food Seccurity CASE Maps

Irrigation and global change – new applications for integrated global land use modeling

Water, Agriculture and Climate Change - a global computable general equilibrium analysis

Modelling the global dynamics of rain-fed and irrigated croplands

Extreme weather endangers food security    Farmers and forecasts

Weather Index-based Insurance in Agricultural Development       

Evergreen agriculture can build resilience and increase food security in the face of climate change

In the crosshairs of hunger and climate change: New ILRI-CCAFS study maps the global hotspots

Climate change impacts on global agriculture land availablity

Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land

Planning and costing agriculture’s adaptation to climate change

Filling the research gap under the Carbon Farming Futures program 

Scarcity and degradation of land and water: growing threat to food security

Effects of land cover change on moisture availability and potential crop yield in the world's breadbaskets

Rethinking connection between soil as a carbon reservoir and global warming

Climate change increases the risk of ozone damage to plants

Modelling of global crop production and resulting N2O emissions

Surface albedo following biochar application in durum wheat

Climate change to deal blow to fruits, nuts: study    The Corn and Climate Report

Data and monitoring needs for a more ecological agriculture    Grapelook    Fresh city  tomatoes, any time

First observations of global and seasonal terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from space

Phosphate: A Critical Resource Misused and Now Running Low

Hydrologic and land–energy feedbacks of agricultural water management practices

Rainfed Farming and Disaster Risk Reduction   Weather insurance builds resilience for farmers

Fungi Reduce Need for Fertilizer in Agriculture    Organic Agriculture and Climate Change

Regional Issues:

Climate change poses risks to food, beyond US drought

Climate change and agriculture in the US - effects and adaptation

India: Icrisat and DST launch centre of excellence in climate change research

Food benefit and climate warming potential of nitrigen fertilizer uses in China 

Climate change impacts on crop productivity in Africa and South Asia

Food security in Indonesia

Australia: climate change will force farmers to adapt     Adapting agriculture to climate change

CSIRO: Sustainable Agriculture Flagship    Australia aims to become Asia's food bowl

Researchers find African farmers need better climate change data to improve farming practices

The complexities of climate change adaptation in South African agriculture

Niger, Mali on alert to desert locust risk   Are regional climate models relevant for crop yield prediction in West Africa?

The causes, processes and impacts of land fragmentation in the rangelands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Factors influencing agbiotech adoption and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Sustainable land-use concept for South America

Assessing the agricultural system and the carbon cycle under climate change in Europe using a dynamic global vegetation model 

GMOs:

Mystery atom helps plants grow    Breakthrough offers promise of improved GMO testing

Analysis of US genetically engineered crop regulation and litigation

Two Evolutionary Histories in the Genome of Rice   Rice agriculture accelerates greenhouse gas emissions

Fisheries:

The State of World Fisheries and Acquaculture 2010   Effects of acquaculture on worldfish supplies

Food Security and Climate Change in the Pacific    Fisheries and Climate Change   Will There Be Fish by 2050

Increasing Returns from Fisheries: Do's and Dont's for Policy Makers     Salmon Alert

WWF on aquaculture  NOAA on aquaculture   Aquaculture in the Mediterranean

Aquaculture tries to fill world's insatiable appetite for seafood

New shellfish certified reference material to enhance food safety