food security

Boosting agricultural research will ensure food security

harminka — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:28:09 -0500

Boosting agricultural research in the developing world is the key to ensuring food security for the world's poorest, says Adel el-Beltagy, Chair of the Global Form on Agricultural Research (GFAR), writing in the latest issue of the TWAS Newsletter, published last week.

Plant breeding technique can help beat world hunger

harminka — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:06:11 -0600

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today called for increased investment in a plant breeding technique that could bolster efforts aimed at pulling millions of people out of the hunger trap.

Household insecurity associated with food insecurity, poor health

harminka — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:47:44 -0500

Researchers from Boston Medical Center have recently found that as household energy insecurity increases, the odds of infants and toddlers experiencing food insecurity, negative health, hospitalizations and developmental risks also increases.

EU Looks to Tighten Food Security

seher — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:14:17 -0500

France is expected to urge the European Union to place greater priority on agriculture and food security in the 27-member bloc during a meeting of European agricultural ministers in Luxembourg.

International experts discuss food security in the face of climate

seher — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:08:34 -0500

International scientists are to discuss ways of tackling the threat of climate change to food security, both nationally and globally, at a three-day conference at Oxford University starting on Wednesday 2 April. The conference ‘Food security and environmental change: linking science and policy for development’ is organised by ‘Global Environmental Change and Food Systems’ (GECAFS), a research project in the University’s Environmental Change Institute.

Association between food insecurity and developmental risk in children

harminka — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:46:10 -0600

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC), in collaboration with researchers from Arkansas, Maryland, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, have found that children living in households with food insecurity , are more likely to be at developmental risk during their first three years of life, compared to similar households that are not food insecure.

European Food Systems in Changing World

harminka — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:05:57 -0600

This Forward Look is a multidisciplinary joint ESF/COST initiative which involves the ESF Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences, the ESF European Medical Research Councils, the ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities, the ESF Standing Committee for the Social Sciences and the COST Domain Committee for Food and Agriculture.

Climate Change Threatens World Food Production

Dinka — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:18:38 -0500

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a special session in Rome, Italy, to discuss the impact of climate change on world food security.

Cooked ham with 39 day shelf life

harminka — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:04:14 -0500

Cooked ham could soon be given a 39 day shelf life, according to scientists speaking today at the Society or General Microbiology's 161st Meeting at the University of Edinburgh, UK, which runs from 3-6 September 2007.

Researchers find satellite data can warn of famine

harminka — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:49:47 -0500

A NASA researcher has developed a new method to anticipate food shortages brought on by drought. Molly Brown of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and her colleagues created a model using data from satellite remote sensing of crop growth and food prices.

FDA New Software To Keep Food Facilities Safe from Attack

Anastvatz — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:44:55 -0500

Latest Effort in Strengthening U.S. Food Defense

Africa's farmers will have room to grow

harminka — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:16:56 -0600