Maintaining food security and environmental integrity over time requires a transition towards sustainable food systems. This paper analyzes different dimensions of national food supply sustainability on a global scale. By focusing on four food staples: wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans, the analysis ...

In this study, the researchers examine the effects of own and peer adoption of improved soybean variety on household yields and food and nutrient consumption, using observational data from Ghana. The researchers employ the marginal treatment effect approach to account for treatment effect...

Food and nutritional (in)security remain an important matter of concern, especially in developing countries. Despite the efforts to enhance food security among smallholder soybean households, the proportion of the undernourished population in Butere Sub-County still remains high for unknown...

Enhancing self-sufficiency and national food security have been strategic policy goals of the Indonesian government. From 2015 to 2019, a food policy program called Upsus Pajale had been implemented to provide input subsidies and extension assistants to farmers for three strategic commodities:...

The paper is aimed at reviewing literature on the significance of soybeans production in the face of the changing climates in Africa. Using literature from the secondary sources, the paper reviewed how Africa can alleviate poverty by growing soybeans amongst the many legumes due to its multiplicity ...

The risk of extreme climatic conditions leading to unusually low global agricultural production is exacerbated if more than one global 'breadbasket' is exposed at the same time. Such shocks can pose a risk to the global food system, amplifying threats to food security, and could potentially trigger ...

This paper projects and analyzes the regional impacts of climate change on the agricultural productivity of family farming and large-scale agriculture in Brazil between 2021 and 2050, using the RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios. The methodology adopted consists of a cross-sectional estimation of a...

Matching the global food demand by 2050 and to ensure the stability of food security in over than 99 countries, it is necessary to scale up the production of food such as sorghum, wheat, rice, maize and sugarcane which are however natural hosts of Cochliobolus species. Cochliobolus species major...

Crop adaptation to climate change is critical for ensuring food security. We systematically reviewed the projected impacts of climate change and adaptation potentials to identify gaps in crop adaptation research. We screened 203 studies of four major crops published between 2021 and 2022. Recent...

Food is the fundamental guarantee for the sustainable development of human society. Countries around the world put food security on their high-priority political agenda. As the largest developing country in the world, China uses only 9% of the world's land, contributing to 25% of the world's food...