Environmental and health impacts of food
A study explores how various types of food affect both human health and the environment.
Category: Social Sciences
Making conservation ‘contagious’
New research reveals conservation initiatives often spread like disease, a fact which can help scientists and policymakers design programs more likely to be taken up.
United Arab Emirates and FAO team up to boost resilience in Liberia
The United Arab Emirates have agreed to provide $4 million in funding to foster rural development in Liberia in partnership with FAO.
Help for small agribusinesses to turn food waste into commercial products
Food waste is costing Australia an estimated $20 billion each year, and Australians are throwing out nearly 300 kgs of food per person per year. In Australia, many of the two million-plus small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) struggle with food waste too, and it is difficult for…
Survey reveals our appetite for eating insects
When it comes to eating insects, New Zealanders like them crunchy and if given a choice would opt to eat a black field cricket before other creepy-crawlies, according to a new AgResearch report that explores the nation’s appetite for insects.
World hunger is still not going down after three years and obesity is still growing
An estimated 820 million people did not have enough to eat in 2018, up from 811 million in the previous year, which is the third year of increase in a row. This underscores the immense challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger…
JCU exports its marine expertise to the United Arab Emirates
James Cook University is sharing its world-class expertise and innovation with the United Arab Emirates, to address challenges such as food security that are confronting marginal environments.
FAO accelerates global efforts towards lifting rural people out of extreme poverty
FAO has launched a new Corporate Framework on Rural Extreme Poverty to accelerate the UN agency’s and its partners’ efforts towards eradicating extreme poverty for all people by 2030 – target 1.1 of Sustainable Development Goal 1 – end poverty.
Producing recyclable films for food packaging
Fully recyclable, transparent films, which can be used in place of metallized coatings for food packaging, are reported in Nature Communications. The films can be produced using an environmentally friendly process and could be easier to recycle than some materials currently used in the food-packaging…
Rates of Legionnaire’s disease in NZ vastly underestimated
The first New Zealand-wide study of the burden of Legionnaire’s disease has found triple the number of cases of this form of pneumonia than previously reported.
FAO and Korea Telecom team up to advance digital agricultural innovation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Korea Telecom (KT) agreed to work together to create more opportunities for youth to engage in smart farming and other forms of agricultural innovation and entrepreneurship.
Call for renewed global push to tackle child labour in agriculture
FAO urged nations to pay greater attention and allocate more financial resources to addressing child labour in domestic and local food supply chains and in subsistence farming where the vast majority of child labour in agriculture occurs.