Climate Change – What Will Happen to Weeds and Diseases?
Much attention has focused on what plants will be able to grow where as the effects of climate change are felt. A key factor that plays into that analysis is what effect climate change will have on diseases and weeds.Two new papers in CAB Reviews look at those two elements and show that that the…
World Tourism Day focuses on climate change
For those of us living in the UK, there hasn’t been much sign of global warming this year as we head into the autumn seemingly without ever having had a summer. Nevertheless, the overwhelming consensus is that climate change is a reality, and that we will all have to adapt accordingly. With tourism one of…
New Video: Water Wars or Water Woes?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Emhgb_8ZwA&hl=nl&fs=1] In the new video ‘Water Wars or Water Woes? Water Management as Conflict Management’ Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) Director Geoff Dabelko explains that although newspapers and politicians constantly warn of impending “water wars,” water rarely leads to interstate violence. By focusing on “water wars,” which evidence shows are extremely rare, we…
Invaders – the good, the bad and the ugly…
Not all invasive species are bad, and in the case of plants it seems that they usually increase biodiversity rather than making native plants extinct. A recent article in PNAS by Dov Sax, an ecologist at Brown University and Steven Gaines, a marine biologist at the University of California, investigates how species invasions and extinction…
Melamine in the Centre of Food Safety Scandal in China
Two infants have already died after they were fed milk formula laced with melamine and doctors are fighting to save the lives of over 1250 babies who have fallen ill with kidney stones.
Live Webcast of a meeting of the board that finances projects on cleaning the environment in developing countries
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The Environmental Impact of NutritionandFoodSciences…dot org
We’ve explored obesity in many different forms during the course of this year and if you’re a regular Handpicked reader (enter your email in the box on the left and click on ‘subscribe’ to become one if you’re not already), you’ll by now be well aware of a recurring theme in our nutrition posts. Energy.…
Mark Palmer
Mark Palmer Content Editor After doing a degree in Natural Sciences (mostly biological) at Cambridge University I decided that I was interested in dealing with and making available the information generated by scientific research, so after spending a year working in the library at the University of York I went on to do an MSc…
Death takes the poor man’s cow…
Seven years since the major outbreak of foot and mouth disease devastated farming here in the UK, another animal health disaster story is unfolding just over a thousand miles to the south, in Morocco. A viral disease, called peste des petit ruminants (PPR), in sheep and goats has broken out in Morocco for the first…
EAAE Conference
The XIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) took place in Ghent, Belgium. The theme ‘People, Food and Environments: Global trends and European strategies’ meant a huge variety of topics were covered in a packed 4 days. Attended by well over 750 delegates from all over Europe plus a strong US presence…