Why indeed? A snail has no notion of roads, what they are made of or what they are used for or even that it is lousy habitat for a gastropod. So what, you might ask...
Feeding Everyone Well
Raising your awareness for solutions to the global food, ecology & diet challenge
MarkThe four pillars of food security | Meeting basic needs and avoiding starvation for everyone
If you are reading this post you are one of the luckiest humans ever to have lived because the four pillars of food security ensure you are well fed.
Finding future food solutions
We don’t know what they will look like but future food solutions are different to what we have now.
Meatless Monday benefits?
There are undeniable meatless Monday benefits to health and the environment unless you are one of the billions who do not have the luxury of such a choice.
ChrisHealthy protein should be the foundation of the human diet
Healthy protein in your diet could help you stay lean, resist disease and even lift your mood. Are you getting enough?
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Sustainable food
The shocking truth about future global food demand
Meeting future global food demand requires and increase in agricultural production to 2050 and we don’t even know by how much.
Aquaculture for fish consumption | The shocking truth about Friday’s fish
Demand and the nutritional benefits of fish have produced a phenomenal rise in aquaculture for fish consumption. Is fish farming the answer to sustainable seafood?
5 megatrends in the food sector | Impacts of a less predictable planet, health awareness, and more
The world has become unpredictable and left us all grasping for something to latch on to. Do megatrends in the food sector offer some hope?
Urban Growth May Not Happen As Imagined
If the trend of the last 100 years continues, by 2050, three, out of four people will live in urban areas. This urban growth might not be a good thing.
Comment | The graph that explains so much
Historians and anyone with half an eye on the past know that the world changed when abundant coal made industrial energy cheap, then natural gas for lighting, and again when oil replaced coal as the primary energy for...
Food ecology
Comment | Where do plants grow best?
Warm, wet rainforest teaming with life is where plants grow best, right? Sure, that makes sense. Most of the earth is far from lush.
Slowing biodiversity loss by designating half the world as a nature reserve
Slowing biodiversity loss is more than a desire, it is an imperative if we are to feed everyone well. The problem is that the ideas to slow extinction rates often involve a compromise with food production and other land...
Sustainability in ecological time | Thermodynamics and implications for food production
Sustainability's definition "use without depletion for future generations" is a fantasy because of one challenge—sustainability in ecological time.
The soil organic carbon debt
A third of greenhouse gas emissions is lost from soil—a soil organic carbon debt borrowed against our children's futures.
Resilience and resistance are not the same when growing food
I get knocked down, but I get up again. So goes the song, and so too our food production systems. At least, we hope they do.
Sustainable diet
Daydreamers die of thirst | how our evolutionary past shapes our discounting of the future
Imagine for a moment that you are in the mind and physically fit body of your ancestor somewhere on the African savanna 70,000 years ago. What happens next?
Biology and diet | How biology, willpower and opportunity shape our diets
Do you eat when you're hungry? And when you're hungry, do you choose what you would like to eat or what you should eat or grab what happens to be in the fridge?
Massive changes in average daily energy consumption from food
Average daily food consumption is above the 2,500 kilocalorie threshold to maintain human body weight in all regions of the world. A remarkable achievement.
Comment | Feeding everyone well means dealing with an elephant
If the world's farmers grow enough food to feed everyone well, why are 800 million people hungry, a billion obese, and 2 billion people with nutrient deficiency?
Diversity of diet
Back before agriculture was invented, anthropologists suggest that modern humans, Homo sapiens, had a highly varied diet. Not perhaps as individuals who ate what they could get, but in the aggregate.
