Cellular Agriculture: An Outlook on Smart and Resilient Food Agriculture Manufacturing

Food and agriculture Chemicals for agriculture

Agricultural production relies heavily on manmade chemicals used as fertilizers and pesticides, and to regulate plant growth. Pesticides are released intentionally into the environment to control insects, weeds, plant diseases and other pests that affect crop or animal production, as well as to control insects that spread human diseases. Pesticides have a well-established role in agriculture an...

Climate smart agriculture, farm household typologies and food security

One of the great challenges in agricultural development and sustainable intensification is the assurance of social equity in food security oriented interventions. Development practitioners, researchers, and policy makers alike could benefit from prior insight into what interventions or environmental shocks might differentially affect farmers' food security status, in order to move towards more ...

Food , Agriculture and Cities

Food security: translational agriculture.

397 COVER Children learning science, like these 7-year-olds tackling nuclear physics in 1948, must work through their mistakes and misconceptions. The route to science literacy involves reading, debate, presentation, and writing. See the special section beginning on page 447.

Interactions: Food, Agriculture and Environment