Planetary Health Diet Could Cut Premature Death Risk by Whopping 30%, Study Reveals; What Exactly Is This Food Regimen That Is Good For the Environment?

Medicine & Technology Jun 12, 2024

The Planetary Health Diet is a food regimen that is good for both humans and the environment. Read to learn more.

Global Food Security Threat: Fungal Infections Have Led to Significant Crop Loss; Figures Could Worsen Due to Global Warming

May 04, 2023

With the spread of fungal infections and the fungi developing resistance to antifungals, the imminent global food security threat emerges. Read to learn more.

Treating Fish as a Public Health Asset, Not a Commodity, Is Key to Food Security

Aug 05, 2020

One of the answers for food security depends on the attitude towards fish--treating them as a domestic public health asset instead of a commodity--according to a new study.

Global Farming Trends Threaten Food Security, Study Says

Jul 13, 2019

The team advocate for a trend reversal, that is, care should be taken to diversify agriculture worldwide and make it more ecological

Edible Insects Substitute For Livestock Meat Could Cut Greenhouse Gasses Emissions

May 08, 2017

The substitution of livestock meat with with edible insects, lab grown meat and imitation meat showed sustainability in the latter as alternative food source that will be available to the human population and at the same time reduces greenhouse gas emission.

Keystone Species Dying Off—Why Losing Beehives and Honey May Be More Concerning Than You'd Think

May 14, 2015

Honeybees are dying en masse all over the globe, and it's not just lovers of honey that should be concerned. These mass deaths will change our dinner plates forever, not to mention raise the cost of eating generally. In a world where food security and hunger are crucially important, this is bad news for everyone.

How Can Soil Erosion Cause Our Doom? Loss of Nutrients Poised to Cause Massive Famine

May 07, 2015

It's not as colorful in an action movie as invaders from other galaxies, for example, but it seems that soil erosion might be just as deadly to humans. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley warn that human food security is at risk from the accelerating rate of soil depletion.