Hundreds of thousands of microalgae float on the surface of the world’s seas and oceans. Only a fraction of them have been studied. The findings are amazing. Suffice it to.
US specialists have called 2019 the year of the mushroom, labelling it the “It product” of the year just ended. The consumption of the ten highest-selling types of mushrooms, out.
According to a Juniper Research study, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) are poised to revolutionise the food industry. Blockchain could reduce food fraud by $31 billion by 2024.
Global food product prices hit their highest levels for two years at the end of the year mainly due to the prices of meat and vegetable oils. The FAO’s price.
To help understand a transition – here the ecological transition in farming – it is always interesting to hear smaller stories: typical individual stories which are woven together to present.
At COP 25, the FAO presented its report on arid land worldwide established from satellite data. Two interesting figures emerged, which suggest a less “catastrophic” vision of aridity: The surface.
6 December 2019 will certainly enter the history books as the date that sustainable fishing ended. On this day, the final wild cod farm in the Gulf of Alaska closed..
Political parties in developed countries have made various promises to plant billions of trees. And many private companies have also got in on the act. EasyJet has promised to plant.
Will meat consumption peak, like we used to think about peak oil? Noisy and passionate vegan demonstrations along with concerns for health and the environment have made this a very.
Forecasts on the potential of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa on the basis of which large scale land transactions are being deployed, are based on a rhetoric of the “empty continent”, adapted to establish agricultural policies as well as to justify all manner of greed. This thesis of the existence of “dormant resources” which would amount to approximately a billion hectares in useful agricultural surfaces area is incorrect. This article introduces the concept of actual availability of agricultural land and takes into account all the real estate constraints in order to assess the surface area likely to be actually devoted to agriculture.
