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  1. The Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton public-private partnership (PPP) project in East Africa was designed to gather baseline data on the effect of Bt cotton on biodiversity and the possibility of gene flow to w...

    Authors: Obidimma C Ezezika, Justin Mabeya and Abdallah S Daar
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1(Suppl 1):S8
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 1 Supplement 1

  2. Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa (VIRCA) is an agricultural biotechnology public-private partnership (PPP) comprising the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center (DDPSC), National Agricultural Research Organiz...

    Authors: Obidimma C Ezezika, Justin Mabeya and Abdallah S Daar
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1(Suppl 1):S7
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 1 Supplement 1

  4. Agricultural soils contribute towards the emission of CH4 (mainly from paddy fields) and N2O (from N-fertilizer application), the two important greenhouse gases causing global warming. Most studies had developed ...

    Authors: Satyendra Nath Mishra, Sudip Mitra, Latha Rangan, Subashisha Dutta and Pooja Singh
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:16
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  5. Subsistence farmers are among the people most vulnerable to current climate variability. Climate models predict that climate change will lead to warmer temperatures, increasing rainfall variability, and increa...

    Authors: Tannis Thorlakson and Henry Neufeldt
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Eating patterns are important for building sustainable food and agricultural systems. This paper begins by presenting the main features of eating patterns worldwide. These eating patterns include the relative ...

    Authors: Hervé Guyomard, Béatrice Darcy-Vrillon, Catherine Esnouf, Michèle Marin, Marie Russel and Marion Guillou
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. For agricultural systems to achieve climate-smart objectives, including improved food security and rural livelihoods as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation, they often need to be take a landscape ...

    Authors: Sara J Scherr, Seth Shames and Rachel Friedman
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. There is an urgent need to solve the problem of micronutrient malnutrition that is prevalent among young children and women in Africa. Genetically modified (GM) biofortified cassava has great potential to solv...

    Authors: Ademola A Adenle, Ogugua C Aworh, Richard Akromah and Govindan Parayil
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. To adapt to climate change and ensure food security, major interventions are required to transform current patterns and practices of food production, distribution and consumption. The scientific community has ...

    Authors: John R Beddington, Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Megan E Clark, Adrian Fernández Bremauntz, Marion D Guillou, Molly M Jahn, Erda Lin, Tekalign Mamo, Christine Negra, Carlos A Nobre, Robert J Scholes, Rita Sharma, Nguyen Van Bo and Judi Wakhungu
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:10
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  12. Recent years have seen global food prices rise and become more volatile. Price surges in 2008 and 2011 held devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of people and negatively impacted many more. Today ...

    Authors: Stefan Hajkowicz, Christine Negra, Paul Barnett, Megan Clark, Bronwyn Harch and Brian Keating
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. The development of agricultural biotechnology humanitarian projects for food security in the last five years has been rapid in developing countries and is expected to rise sharply over the coming years. An ext...

    Authors: Obidimma C Ezezika, Nadira Saleh and Abdallah S Daar
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:5
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  16. Ensuring food security for the worlds population over the coming decades will face the challenges of a larger world population, greater urbanization, limited natural resources, higher levels of income, and str...

    Authors: Pedro A Arraes Pereira, Geraldo B Martha Jr, Carlos AM Santana and Eliseu Alves
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. The planet earth, on which we live in communities, is being increasingly 'ruptured' because of human activities; its carrying capacity is under great stress because of demographic pressures. The pressure is es...

    Authors: Adel El-Beltagy and Magdy Madkour
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. In 2012, food insecurity is still a major global concern as 1 billion people are suffering from starvation, under-, and malnutrition, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has c...

    Authors: Albert Sasson
    Citation: Agriculture & Food Security 2012 1:2
    Content type: Review Published on:
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Agriculture & Food Security

ISSN: 2048-7010