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Food Deficits in Africa Will Grow in a Warmer World

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 5 October 20225 October 2022

Under the combined stress of growing populations and current warming trends, many African nations will face increasing shortfalls in food production in the coming decades.

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

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 17 September 202129 March 2023

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 202115 March 2023

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

Un agricultor se agacha sobre suelo seco y agrietado en su granja en Punjab.
Posted inNews

La región agrícola más importante de la India se está desertificando

by G. Singh 28 January 202114 March 2023

El cultivo de arroz consume más agua de la que el Punjab puede recargar. Si continúan las tasas de riego actuales, el estado vaciará sus reservas de agua subterránea dentro de 20 años.

A youth farmer in Los Angeles County gives a tour of an urban farm
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Urban Agriculture Combats Food Insecurity, Builds Community

by DJ McCauley 25 January 202121 February 2023

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 20214 November 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

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher 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
Posted inOpinions

Enhancing Food Security Through Earth Science Data

by M. E. Brown 25 January 202124 October 2022

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 202113 March 2023

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.

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