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Case Study: Rice

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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…

Sustainable Food: What Can I Do?

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Sustainable Food: What Can I Do?

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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…

Emergence of Modern Agriculture

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Emergence of Modern Agriculture

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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…

Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals

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Agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals

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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…

Global Challenges Around Food

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Global Challenges Around Food

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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…

Mechanisms to Stimulate Change

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Mechanisms to Stimulate Change

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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…

Sustainable Agriculture Intensification

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Sustainable Agriculture Intensification

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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…

Monitoring Change

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Monitoring Change

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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…

Risk Under a Business-As-Usual Scenario

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Risk Under a Business-As-Usual Scenario

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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…

Investing in Science

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Investing in Science

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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…

Good Agronomy

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Good Agronomy

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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…

Pathways to Change

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Pathways to Change

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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…

The Importance of Productivity Growth

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The Importance of Productivity Growth

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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…

Q&A | Achim Dobermann | 2017 Apr. 2

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Q&A | Achim Dobermann | 2017 Apr. 2

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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 Mar. 17

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Q&A | Achim Dobermann | 2017 Mar. 17

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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, Dionys Forster &…

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Q&A | Achim Dobermann, Dionys Forster &…

Q&A | Achim Dobermann, Dionys Forster & Gary Nairn | 2017 Apr. 21

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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…

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