30 May New assessment of fungal disease in crops
Read the article Antimicrobial resistance is a well-known and pressing issue for human and animal health. While bacteria...
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14 Mar Principles for the responsible use of farmed insects as livestock feed
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Read the article Insect farming is advancing into the livestock feed arena. Replacing conventional feed ingredients, insects can...
21 Feb Seafood as a sustainable alternative to meat?
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in Animal Food Sources, Climate, Diet, Energy Consumption, Food Systems, Livestock, Nutrition, Production, Sustainability
Read the article With the growing attention on environmental sustainability, there has been a common narrative call to...
07 Feb Attempting to capture the total footprint of food production
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in Climate, Energy Consumption, Food Systems, Health, Knowledge Hub, Livestock, Production, Sustainability
Read article Published in Nature Sustainability, a recent paper has attempted a finer-grained quantification of the environmental...
01 Nov Double cropping in the US amid supply challenges
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Read article It’s conventional to think of an area of land producing one harvested crop each growing...
04 Oct Likely footprints of lab-grown milk proteins investigated
Read article A recent study from the Finnish VTT Research Centre has provided a best early estimate...
20 Sep Ukraine and global nutrition
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in Cost, Food Sourcers, Food Systems, Health, Nutrition, Production, Sustainability
Read article Earlier this year, Director-General of the FAO, Qu Dongyu, released an open article on the events...
16 Aug Latest FAO flagship publication on food trade released
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in Affordability, Cost, Diet, Food Systems, Health, Nutrition, Production, Sustainability
Read article The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently released their 2022 “State of Agricultural Commodity...
05 Jul Urban-rural divide in dietary diversity and expenditure
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in Affordability, Cost, Diet, Energy Consumption, Food Sourcers, Health, Nutrition, Production
Read article It is well known that the global population is becoming increasingly urban. This has an impact...
01 Jun Environmental pawprints
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in Diet, Energy Consumption, Food Systems, Nutrition, Production, Sustainability, Waste
Consumers are increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of their diets and lifestyles, with everything from transport...