nutrition
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How genebanks are protecting Africa’s threatened wild food plants
Across Africa, wild food plants — especially fruit trees and vegetables — quietly sustain people’s diets and livelihoods. Yet many of these valuable species,…
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Study: Amazonian wildlife feeds millions
Across the vast Amazon rainforest, people have hunted a wide array of animals — mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians…
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Our food systems are failing. Can trees and forests dish up better diets for everyone?
Despite all of the technological and informational advancements of recent decades, we’ve so far failed to feed our global population…
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Scientists urge greater role for forests in policies on food security and nutrition
A new policy brief demonstrates the role forests and trees play in sustaining food production and food security and nutrition…
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Rethink diet-land use connections to prevent future pandemics, scientist says
Terry Sunderland on CBC radio’s “The Current”
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What money won’t buy: Diet quality drops for rural Indonesians as incomes rise
It might seem logical that as people earn more, they are generally “better off.” And it is certainly true that…
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‘Food trees’ can help meet nutritional and landscape restoration targets
Trees offering nutritional potential through their fruit pulp, fats, oils, starchy shoots and other edible parts grow widely throughout the…
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Building soil and ecosystem health for food and nutritional security: A worm’s eye view
Leigh Ann Winowiecki is theme leader for Soil and Land Health at World Agroforestry (ICRAF). My father and I were…
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U.N. green cities initiative to promote forestry and sustainable food systems
A new green cities initiative will encourage governments to kickstart large-scale transformative changes to improve food security, nutrition and the…
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‘Nutri-scapes’ a recipe for better nutrition
Global food systems focus on an ever-narrower range of calorie-rich but nutritionally limited crops, degrade ecosystems and endanger human health.…
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Pressure on forests from unhealthy diets may increase spread of viruses, scientist says
Theories surrounding the origins of the SARS-COV2 coronavirus often point to disturbances in the natural environment. Through disruptions and human…
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Nutrition goals should guide design of food production landscapes, researchers say
Forests offer undervalued policy solutions to malnutrition and hunger
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degradation are major drivers of the emergence…
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Defining the role of forests, trees, agroforestry to help curb COVID-19 food crisis
The emergence of the coronavirus has put the world on the brink of a major famine, according to the World…
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Our food system, is it sustainable?
Conservation of biodiversity is not a trade-off, but a major contributor to food security
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