food security

25% of World’s Population Under Extreme Water Stress: WRI

25% of World’s Population Under Extreme Water Stress: WRI

One fourth of the planet’s population in 25 countries experiences extremely high water stress annually, using nearly all of their available water supply on a regular basis, according to new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI)’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas. Additionally, about four billion people live in conditions where they have high water stress […]

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    Fruit and Vegetable Shortage in UK Leads Supermarkets to Ration

    Fruit and Vegetable Shortage in UK Leads Supermarkets to Ration

    Fresh produce shortages have prompted UK supermarkets — including Asda, Morrisons and Tesco — to ration their fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes, lettuce and peppers were being limited to three per customer at Asda, reported BBC News. Tesco, the latest store to implement buying limits, had a maximum of three per customer for cucumbers, tomatoes and […]

    Seed Saving 101: Everything You Need to Know

    Seed Saving 101: Everything You Need to Know

    During the pandemic, many turned to gardening as a refuge. According to a survey, while many did it because they were concerned about food access and food security, others also said it was mainly a way to feel less isolated and depressed, and as a way to grow food for the community.  So many people […]

    Spiritual Leader Sadhguru Takes 100-Day Motorcycle Journey to Save Soil

    Spiritual Leader Sadhguru Takes 100-Day Motorcycle Journey to Save Soil

    More than half of the world’s agricultural soils are already degraded, and both scientists and UN agencies agree that the remaining soil will only take us another 40 to 50 years.  Yet despite the threat this poses to biodiversity, the climate and global food security, soil health receives less attention than other looming environmental crises. […]

    NASA Climate Scientist Awarded 2022 World Food Prize

    NASA Climate Scientist Awarded 2022 World Food Prize

    Climatologist and agronomist Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, who is a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been awarded the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation. Conceived of as the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture,” according to the World Food […]

    Ukraine Invasion Could Cause Global Food Crisis, UN Warns

    Ukraine Invasion Could Cause Global Food Crisis, UN Warns

    The Russian invasion of Ukraine could lead to a global food crisis, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.  The coronavirus pandemic has already pushed food prices higher, putting strain on developing countries especially. Now, experts worry that the invasion could raise them even further. “My greatest fear is that the conflict continues […]

    Modern-Day Diets Are Changing Human Chemistry, Study Finds

    Modern-Day Diets Are Changing Human Chemistry, Study Finds

    By Malavika Vyawahare “Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are,” the French lawyer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote in his 1826 opus, Physiologie du Goût. This is quite literally the case, scientists decoding the human body have found. Now, an analysis of chemical signatures in human hair and nails shows […]