Duckweed is the perfect space food: small, fast-growing and nutritious. By studying how light levels changed the production of radiation-fighting antioxidants, researchers made it even better.
Smaller farmers fields can be beneficial to wild species.
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When South Africa eventually emerges from the fog of the COVID-19 crisis, structural reform, including land reform, will be high on the political agenda as never before.
As the world’s population grows, agriculture and related industries will grow in size and importance in Canada. Smart investors should bet on Canadian farmland.
A cabbage farmer in Kumasi prepares his land.
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Kabila Abass, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and Kwadwo Afriyie, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
Industrial animal agriculture in our own backyard could very well be the cause of the next pandemic.
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Kalle Hirvonen, United Nations University and Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Despite their popularity, there are reasons to doubt whether “home gardens” provide a sustainable and cost-effective way of addressing hidden hunger.
Migrant workers from Mexico maintain social distancing as they wait to be transported to Québec farms after arriving in April at Trudeau Airport in Montréal.
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The demands of social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic will make it increasingly difficult for migrant agricultural workers to meet their basic needs.
This transformation provides lessons for the rest of world, for shifting away from chemical agriculture towards a healthier system for people and the planet.