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Fixing Our Food: Reduce Food Waste
Posted on March 23, 2010We could be doing better in the battle against hunger if we made fuller use of the food we grow.
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Fixing Our Food: Go Vertical
Posted onHigh-rise greenhouses and other indoor farming systems can get more food into cities that need it the most.
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Fixing Our Food: Teach More People to Farm
Posted onOur food production depends on a shrinking number of farmers. Who will succeed them?
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Fixing Our Food: Preserve Our Farmland
Posted on442 million acres of American soil grew crops in 2002, the lowest amount of land in farming since World War II.
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Fixing Our Food: Diversify Crops Regionally
Posted onConcentrating agricultural production is becoming expensive and risky. We need a broader array of foods grown closer to home.
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Fixing Our Food: Reform Crop Subsidies
Posted onFederal agricultural programs are beginning to reward farmers for more than just yield, but there’s still more room to incentivize best practices.
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Fixing Our Food: Start a New Green Revolution
Posted onWe don’t just need to grow more food. We need to grow it better.
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Fixing Our Food
Posted onSafe food. Healthy food. Enough food. Can we secure the bounty we take for granted for future generations? A team of CALS experts say that we can meet the world’s food challenges––and here are their best ideas for how to do it.
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Lebanon: Tomato Diplomacy in the Middle East
Posted on November 4, 2009Researchers come together over tomatoes.
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Columbia: In Bogotá, Politics is Anything but Usual
Posted onProfessor studies power of Internet in Colombian election
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Bangladesh: Breeding Bulls Can’t Take the Heat
Posted onProfessor teams up with Bangladeshi researchers to create virility measure.
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Root Lessons
Posted onIn the classroom, Bruce Allison delivers the tools of the trade—and a message about our connection with trees.