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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...