Background: Periods of extreme food shortages during war force people to eat food that they normally do not consider edible. The last time that countries in Western Europe experienced severe scarcities was during World War II. The so-called Dutch famine or Hunger Winter (1944-1945) made at least...
Author(s)
Vorstenbosch, T.; Zwarte, I. de; Duistermaat, L.; Andel, T. van
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017, 13, 63, pp (17 November 2017)
Food system analysis is a relatively new field, bringing together all parts of food supply, from agriculture and agronomy to global food availability and environmental considerations. While academics broadly focus on the global impacts, such as climate change and health, this new field of study...
Publisher
International Sugar Organization (ISO), London, UK
Citation
MECAS Studies - International Sugar Organization, 2022, (22)05, pp ii + 47 pp.
Indicators have been determined that make it possible to substantiate the necessary areas for growing seeds of domestic hybrids using various methods of seed production. A model for calculating the volume of growing seeds, taking into account modern technologies of cultivation of sugar beets and...
Author(s)
Bartenev, I. I.
Publisher
Sakharnaya Svekla, Moscow, Russia
Citation
Sakharnaya Svekla, 2021, 3,
In the modern world, especially in the current conditions of the pandemic, ensuring food security is of particular importance, which is largely associated with the development of agrarian production. The development of agricultural production at the regional level is undoubtedly important, since...
Author(s)
Kozhanchikova, N. Y.; Polyakova, A. A.
Publisher
Orel State Agrarian University, Orel, Russia
Citation
Bulletin of Agrarian Science, 2021, 4, pp 146-153
Information was prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia for the meeting of Government Commission of the Russian Federation on issues of the agroindustrial complex held on 26 January 2012. Assessment of the current condition of and measures to achieve food security in 2011, and issues of...
Publisher
Ekonomika Sel'skokhozyaistvennykh i Pererabatyvayushchikh Predpriyatii, Moscow, Russia
Citation
Ekonomika Sel'skokhozyaĭstvennykh i Pererabatyvayushchikh Predpriyatiĭ, 2012, No.2, pp 15-20
Author(s)
Degenkolbe, R.; Masson, T.
Publisher
DLG AgroFood Medien GmbH, Gross-Umstadt, Germany
Citation
Zuckerrübe, 2022, 71, 5, pp 34-35
Since 2014, the Swiss Confederation has made food-supply security payments to ensure the reliable supply of food to the population. At CHF 1.1 billion per annum, these account for a large proportion of direct payments. Agroscope has now tested the effectiveness of this instrument on behalf of the...
Author(s)
Möhring, A.; Mack, G.; Zimmermann, A.; Mann, S.; Ferjani, A.
Publisher
Agroscope FAL Reckenholz, Zürich, Switzerland
Citation
Recherche Agronomique Suisse, 2018, No.10, pp 348-355
Nexus perspective helps us to understand the wider implications for Water-Energy-Food (WEF). The paper develop a concept of water productivity (WP) and virtual water (VW) as integrating terms to go beyond a simple ratio between yield and water use or vice versa to create Productivity, Water and...
Author(s)
El-Bably, A. Z.; El-Hafez, S. A. A.
Publisher
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Citation
International Journal of Water Resources and Arid Environments, 2019, 8, 2, pp 118-131
Two of the gene centres, the Mediterranean and the Near East, meet in Turkey, which comprises the Irano-Turanian, Mediterranean and Euro-Siberian phytogeographical divisions. The country is situated on the crossroads of important migratory routes and has been home to several civilizations,...
Author(s)
Ozturk, M.; Altay, V.; Gucel, S.; Altundag, E.
ISBN
2017 CABI (H ISBN 9781780646947)
This study aimed to estimate the optimal mix of frost resistant crops and land area needed to provide basic nutrition during various nuclear winter scenarios for New Zealand (NZ), a temperate island nation. It used linear programming to minimize land area required for cropping while producing...
Author(s)
Wilson, N.; Payne, B.; Boyd, M.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group, London, UK
Citation
Scientific Reports, 2023, 13, 5,