Spotlights
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Climate Change
Climate change poses serious threats to global food security. Variability in climate can make farming a very risky business, especially for the many millions of farmers who rely on rainfall to water their crops. Many…
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Conservation tillage
Agricultural production has involved some form of tillage for centuries. The breaking up, grinding and smoothing out of soil with plowing devices has long been the farmer’s way of preparing a field for planting. But…
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Agriculture and water
World Water Day 2010 is bringing water to center stage in the month of March. Accordingly, this precious resource is the focus of this month’s Spotlight on sustainability, which will explore the challenges surrounding…
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Global Hunger
More than a billion people around the world don’t have enough to eat, according to the United Nations’ "Food and Agriculture Organization":http://www.fao.org/ (FAO). This means one in six people goes to bed hungry every night.…
