23.dominic_sansoni.worldbank.jpg Isabel DoCampo's blog On April 26, the Council launched a new report, Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World, at the Global Food Security Symposium 2016. Each week, we will h ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This piece originally appeared on Agri-Pulse. Editor's note: Agri-Pulse and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs are teaming up to host a monthly column to explore how the U.S. agriculture and food sector can maintain its ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Precision agriculture (PA) has emerged as a promising new path to increased environmental sustainability in food production. GPS positioning is he ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Can Oregano Fight Cow Belches, and Climate Change? Cows are notoriously gassy creatures. Globally, more than a third of methane generated by human activity comes from livestock farming, a good deal of it in the form of bovine be ...
7.rupak_de_chowdhuri.reuters.jpg Isabel DoCampo's blog On April 26, the Council launched a new report, Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World, at the Global Food Security Symposium 2016. Each week, we will h ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This post originally appeared on Farming First. By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population—6.3 billion people—will live in urban areas. And, 90 percent of this urban growth will be concentrated in developing countries. This ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Jeffrey Bloem, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, and Social Media Ambassador, Global Food Security Symposium 2016 The March 12 th edition of The ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Farms That Rise to the Challenge One reason that vertical farming remains a small, obscure niche is that farmers need to make money, not just food; many skeptics argue that whatever energy and money are saved by shortening the ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This post originally appeared on AgFunder News. By 2100—well within the lifetimes of people born today—the world’s top 10 largest cities will all be in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Each of those 10 will be home to more ...
26.georgina_smith.ciat_.jpg Isabel DoCampo's blog On April 26, the Council launched a new report, Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World, at the Global Food Security Symposium 2016. Each week since, we have ...
