Global food security

Scientists have created plants whose cells and tissues ‘blush’ with beetroot pigments when they are colonised by fungi that help them take up...

Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and combat malnutrition in the face of climate change, environmental...

Mammals, birds and amphibians worldwide have lost on average 18% of their natural habitat range as a result of changes in land use and climate change...

The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...

Solutions found during the current pandemic could benefit food security, human security, & international development.

As countries adopt different approaches, the question remains: how best to enact a lockdown without compromising critical food supply chains in the...

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...

Once dismissed as ‘junk DNA’ that served no purpose, a family of ‘jumping genes’ found in tomatoes has the potential to accelerate crop breeding for...