Food production has kept up

Production Scale Up of Nanofibers: A Review

What Food is to be Kept Safe and for Whom? Food-Safety Governance in an Unsafe Food System

This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between...

How to Set up an Effective Food Tax?; Comment on “Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?”

Whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. Excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

Biofuels versus food production: Does biofuels production increase food prices?

Rapidly growing fossil energy consumption in the transport sector in the last two centuries caused problems such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, growing energy dependency and supply insecurity. One approach to solve these problems could be to increase the use of biofuels. Preferred feedstocks for current 1st generation biofuels production are corn, wheat, sugarcane, soybean, rapeseed an...

Kept out

One topic of increasing interest to conservationists is to assess the human value of ecosystems, from the provision of food and water to recreation, carbon storage and supporting biodiversity, to better understand their importance. But biodiversity and other ecosystem services are increasingly threatened by human activities. The hope among conservation biologists and policy makers is that futur...