Isabel DoCampo's blog Cattle ranching and native forests co-exist in Chiapas, Mexico, as part of The Nature Conservancy’s strategy to boost productivity and conservation. By Ginya Truitt Nakata, Lands Director, Latin America, The Nature Conservancy T ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog A health quarantine officer collects samples to run tests at a pig farm in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. REUTERS/Stringer The world is growing, and it’s hungry. By 2050 the world’s population is on track to surpass 9 billion people ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Free-range chickens gather indoors at Grassington Farm near Lewes in southern England. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor Farmers Enlist Chickens and Bugs to Battle against Pests In an effort to turn away from chemical pesticides, which ha ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog foodborne_infographic.jpg When we think of the food system we need to feed the world in 2050—the kind of transformations we need in science and production to feed more than 9 billion people—those ideas, though enormous, are ofte ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Stephen Smith, Affiliate Professor, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University I was looking at the map of the world and wondering where I might hope to have been born if life was dependent only on the crops domesticated t ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog A worker scoops animal feed made from recycled food waste at Agri Gaia System, a waste food recycling company, in Sakura, east of Tokyo. JAPAN-FOOD/RECYCLED REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao Farm Animals Actually Eat People’s Leftovers – An ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This piece originally appeared on Brink. By Jason Clay, Executive Director, The Markets Institute, World Wildlife Fund After nearly 200 years, the commodity trading system needs an upgrade. It needs to keep up with changing mar ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Cary Fowler, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Chair of the International Council, Svalbard Global Seed Vault Imagine a world in which the biological foundation of agriculture becomes politicized. Where countries abrogat ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Imagine the global food trade as a river that flows between nations. Think of it not only as a flow of goods between nations, but a flow of inputs—nations trading the water, land, and labor it takes to produce food for trade. Li ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog A Thai migrant catches crabs at an estuary, on Zikim beach in the Mediterranean sea near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Amir Cohen Insured Crabs, Tea Help China’s Farmers Avoid Extreme Weather L ...
