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A person holding soil lets it fall from one hand to the other with a blurred background.
Posted inNews

Traditional Fertilizers Beat Out Industrial Chemicals in Soil Health Test

by Andrew Chapman 29 March 202229 March 2022

New research in western India found that fertilizer based on Traditional Ecological Knowledge made soil more fertile in a head-to-head test with industrial fertilizers.

A farmer carries forage for his mule in southwestern Ethiopia.
Posted inNews

To Understand Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, Consider Both Climate and Conflict

by Rachel Fritts 17 September 202121 March 2022

Warfare exacerbates the impacts of drought to produce food insecurity crises that last long after the drought has passed, new research documents.

A reenactor works on a Viking farm at a living history museum in Sweden.
Posted inNews

Food Security Lessons from the Vikings

by James Dacey 29 June 202116 December 2021

Scandinavian societies of the first millennium adapted their farming practices to volcano-driven climate changes.

A youth farmer in Los Angeles County gives a tour of an urban farm
Posted inNews

Urban Agriculture Combats Food Insecurity, Builds Community

by DJ McCauley 25 January 20213 November 2021

Innovations in urban agriculture—from creative reuse of stormwater to soil rehabilitation—can help fight food insecurity and prevent further food issues.

Research ecologist Steven Mirsky evaluates a cereal rye cover crop.
Posted inNews

Cover Crops, Sensors, and Food Security

by DJ McCauley 25 January 202128 March 2022

Forward-Thinking Ideas for the USDA’s Agriculture Innovation Agenda

Close up of a drip irrigation pipe on a farm in Kenya with a budding plant behind it
Posted inAGU News

Our Place in the Food Security Chain

by Heather Goss 25 January 20213 November 2021

In our February issue of Eos, we look at what role geoscientists have in ensuring everyone in our communities has a meal on the table.

Bins of produce for sale in an open-air market in Accra, Ghana, in the summer of 2019
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Enhancing Food Security Through Earth Science Data

by M. E. Brown 25 January 20213 November 2021

When most agriculture in the world is rural, getting crucial geoscience information to farmers is a technical challenge that a few organizations are just starting to figure out.

A wind turbine towers over an irrigated farm field with mountains in the distance
Posted inScience Updates

Solving Shared Problems at the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus

by J. Zhuang, F. Löffler, G. Sayler, G. Yu and G. Jiang 25 January 202122 March 2022

A 15-year-old partnership among Chinese and U.S. scientists studying challenges in our food, energy, and water systems has revealed that solutions are best achieved through international collaboration.

A farmer weeds her field in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Posted inScience Updates

Sowing Seeds of Food Security in Africa

by C. Nakalembe, C. Justice, H. Kerner, C. Justice and I. Becker-Reshef 25 January 20213 November 2021

An innovative program focused on collaboration and capacity building is looking to improve outcomes for smallholder farmers, reduce hunger, and alleviate food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.

Green shoots rise from dry, cracked soil.
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Climate Change Uproots Global Agriculture

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 January 20211 April 2022

Climate change is shifting where ideal growing conditions exist and is leaving farmers behind. How can we secure our future food supply and support the people who grow it?

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