Monitoring the Dangerous Decline of Wild Bees
Bees are an essential part of food production and a healthy ecosystem, so following the rise and fall their populations is essential.
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Food Supply
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Without Biodiversity, Ecosystems Grow Unstable
Biodiversity is the hub through which human activity harms—or aids—the environment, a new study shows.
Great, Russia’s Crops Just Failed
While everyone else was worrying about hurricanes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization quietly published its own…
Is the Apple-ocalypse Upon Us? UPDATED
I’m a big apple guy. So imagine my dismay on Friday when the USDA staged a classic end-of-the-week…
How Norman Borlaug Went With the Grain
“Our Daily Bread: The Essential Norman Borlaug” is a multivolume biography that chronicles the microbiologist and his Nobel Prize-winning work to thwart starvation.
Ten Hearty Orphan Crops
More about the different kinds of orphan crops that grow all over the world.
Rethinking the Sandwich: the Globalization of Wheat Rust
Ignored orphan crops from the developing world may be the White Knight that rescues the Green Revolution from the Red Queen.
America’s Food Safety Back on a Front Burner
Confidence in the American food supply has been at a low ebb of late. A resumed federal focus and frequenting local producers may help reverse the tide.