food shortage, food waste, global food production
We tend to avoid choosing apples with brown spots, assuming that they taste bad. But if we are to end food waste, we’ll need to upend that assumption. A UCPH researcher emphasizes that there’s nothing wrong with oddly shaped or bruised apples. Which bananas end up in your shopping basket — the uniformly yellow ones ...
In recent months, there has been speculation that China is heading toward a food crisis and will soon be facing a food shortage. As if confirming these suspicions, Chinese authorities have reportedly begun instructing farmers to switch to cultivating staple crops like grains. Growing grains to offset the food shortage In April, the local government ...
The world is currently experiencing one of the worst incidences of locust swarms in decades. Vast regions of East Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and India are being invaded by these pests, which consume all plant crops in their path, thus creating the possibility of serious food shortages around the world. Locust swarms damaging crops ...
Ever since the start of the year, several countries in East Africa have been plagued by an invasion of locusts that are destroying crops en masse in the region. This is said to be the biggest outbreak of locusts in East Africa in decades, with experts warning that things could turn out much worse as ...