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Agriculture s impact on water-energy balance varies across climates

Author(s): Zaerpour M; Hatami S; Ballarin AS; Papalexiou SM; Pietroniro A; Nazemi A;

Agriculture is a cornerstone of global food production, accounting for a substantial portion of water withdrawals worldwide. As the world's population grows, so does the demand for water in agriculture, leading to alterations in regional water-energy balances. We present an approach to identify the influence of agriculture on the water-energy balance ...

Article GUID: 40096605


A Public Health Ethics Case for Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Risk in Food Production

Author(s): Bernstein J; Dutkiewicz J;

This article argues that governments in countries that currently permit intensive animal agriculture - especially but not exclusively high-income countries - are, in principle, morally justified in taking steps to restrict or even eliminate intensive animal agriculture to protect public health from the risk of zoonotic pandemics. Unlike many extant argume ...

Article GUID: 33997264


Nourishing the Nexus: A Feminist Analysis of Gender, Nutrition and Agri-food Development Policies and Practices

Author(s): Vercillo S; Rao S; Ragetlie R; Vansteenkiste J;

This article applies feminist critiques to investigate how agri-food and nutritional development policy and interventions address gender inequality. Based on the analysis presented of global policies and examples of project experiences from Haiti, Benin, Ghana, and Tanzania, we find that the widespread emphasis on gender equality in policy and practice ge ...

Article GUID: 37361474


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