Higher food prices combined with reduced income inevitably posed risks to food security, meaning that many households had to lower the quality and quantity of their food consumption [69]. The result indicated that the impact of COVID-19 on the food security index is detrimental and statistically...
After the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CAB International (CABI), and the USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL) agreed to collaborate in 2013, the process of creating a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (the original meaning of GACS) begin in March 2014 with...
Over the past decades, both wild and domesticated insect pollinators are in dramatic decline, which puts at stake the existence of species, ecosystem resilience and global food security. Globally, 87 of major food crops depend on animal pollination. Together these account for 35 % of the world...
Global food security requires food production to be increased in the future decades. Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ) methodology is a successful approach used in land evaluation studies to support sustainable agricultural development. This approach can facil
The GSI is a complete system with rich meaning. It is the important fruit of applying Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy to the field of international security. It also improves and goes beyond the Western theory of geopolitica...
Food security is becoming an increasingly relevant topic in the Global North, especially in urban areas. Because such areas do not always have good access
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Sergey Malakhov, executive director of the Institute for the Development of Parliamentarism in Russia, said the meeting between the two leaders has significant meaning not only for Russia but also for the international community, as Western countries are waging an aggressive public political campaign ...
Well defined, hierarchical vocabulary, connected with logical relationships—in other words, an ontology—is urgently needed to help tackle data harmonization problems that span the domains of food security, safety, quality, production, distribution, and consumer health and convenience. FoodOn (http:/...
For example, all model-scenarios report net AFOLU emissions, but only 39–55% report afforestation under the “Carbon Sequestration|Land Use|Afforestation” variable, meaning that some models implicitly rely on afforestation but do not report it. Given this lack of reporting consistency, especially ...