The following blog was written by Linde Hess a digitiser in the Herbarium. Since 2021 we have increased our digitisation capacity reaching 1 million specimens imaged in August 2024. Each digitiser is assigned a family of plants to work through. This series of blogs will spotlight the families tha| Botanics Stories
A future in which humanity produces more food on less land is not inevitable, but possible.| Our World in Data
From Boston Public Library via Wikimedia Commons.Daniel Quinn returned to the theme that “food makes babies” so often in his writings that it would seem he was continually dissatisfied either with the clarity of his case, or with objections people had, or both. I get it. I often return over and over to the same thorny themes, each time thinking I’ll finally nail it. The exercise is as much for improving internal clarity as anything.| Do the Math
By Vijay Jayaraj Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible. From famine to abundance: green revolution Contemporary food production sustains a global populace of approximately 8 billion … Read more| CO2 Coalition
A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie sufficient one. As a result, three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.| Our World in Data
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history| The New Atlantis
Here are a few shocking statistics about the domestic chicken population of the world and what fate awaits how many chickens each day.| WAF
Agricultural surplus makes economic growth possible, but economists and policymakers regularly—and dangerously—overlook the implications.| Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting…| The Breakthrough Institute
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How had the availability of food changed over time? How does food supply vary across the world today?| Our World in Data
Castoreum, a substance from sacs near a beaver’s anus, has been used in human products for more than 2,000 years. Some wonder if it's still an ingredient on today's grocery shelves.| Animals
More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.| Our World in Data