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This chapter talks about rice, the diversity of rice production systems, and challenges that the global rice sector faces. Rice is the oldest domesticated food crop and…
Case Study: Rice
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This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability. It takes people to make a change. Be an informed…
Sustainable Food: What Can I Do?
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This chapter looks at how modern agriculture has emerged. Agriculture refers broadly to the cultivation of animals, plants and other life forms for the production of…
Emergence of Modern Agriculture
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The first big challenge that the world suffers from is malnutrition, which means that people eat a diet that contains too few or too many nutrients: at this point, 800…
Global Challenges Around Food
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The post-2015 agenda for sustainable development for the first time has agriculture play a significant role. Sustainable development can be traced to sustainable forest…
Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Three mechanisms that are important for terminating transformative changes are the need for more coordinated action, the need for good policies that enable change, and…
Mechanisms to Stimulate Change
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There are five components to a sustainable health-enhancing food system: nutritious, healthier diets and safe food; less losses and waste; increased productivity on the…
Sustainable Agriculture Intensification
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This chapter discusses monitoring change as part of the sustainable development process. To change something, you need to have goal, targets, and indicators because the…
Monitoring Change
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Business-as-usual for consumers means that as population growth, urbanization, and income growth continue the rising middle class consumes more food and demands more…
Risk Under a Business-As-Usual Scenario
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R&D in agriculture has between 20-80% rate of return, and has about 5% of the global spending on R&D from the public sector and private companies. Three trends…
Investing in Science
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Good agronomy is the center of good farming: it means the law of the field, or how to grow a crop successfully. Nowadays, its largely about managing the complex…
Good Agronomy
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How can we take action for change? There are actions for agricultural transformation that can work in short-term actions to match with political cycles with leaders who…
Pathways to Change
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We know that we need to achieve productivity growth, but it important that this is done in a sustainable manner, particularly for cereal crops. Many farmers in the…
The Importance of Productivity Growth
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Achim Dobermann answers questions relating to Week 2 of the "Feeding a Hungry Planet" course. Specifically, the history of agriculture and the need to change…
Q&A | Achim Dobermann | 2017 Apr. 2
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Achim Dobermann answers questions relating to the introductory sections of the "Feeding a Hungry Planet" course. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA…
Q&A | Achim Dobermann | 2017 Mar. 17
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Achim Dobermann leads a session about sustainable intensification of agriculture. Two guests, Dionys Forster and Gary Nairn, offer different perspectives. This video is…
Q&A | Achim Dobermann, Dionys Forster &…
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