food insecurity
03/27/2018
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By Ralph Flores
Sustainable and easy to grow, jack fruit can help provide food independence to poor cultures
The jackfruit is in the middle of a renaissance. In recent years, it’s been hailed as one of the hottest food trends, it’s currently a wildly popular meat substitute, and in the future, it may very well be the answer to the looming food security crisis. While no one really knows where the jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) […]
01/30/2018
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By Isabelle Z.
New research suggests ONE THIRD of American households are food insecure, with limited access to healthy food
When we think of people going hungry, many of us envision starving children in Africa, but it’s a struggle that is also quite familiar to far too many Americans. In fact, a recent study found that this problem could be a lot more extensive in the U.S. than previously believed. Researchers from The Ohio State […]
07/20/2017
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By Rhonda Johansson
Industrial fishing wastes 10 million tons of fish every year while devastating the world’s ocean life
A decades-long review of fishing practices concluded that 10 percent of all the fish that are caught worldwide are thrown back into the ocean. This amounted to around 10 million tons of fish — which are either dead or dying — being discarded due to poor fishing practices and improper management. A group of 300 […]
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