food
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How Is Climate Change Affecting Your Valentine’s Day Chocolate?
Professor of Climate Jessica Fanzo explains what cacao trees need to thrive, and how climate change is making chocolate production more challenging.
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The Critical Need to Align Climate and Nutrition Global Agendas at COP29
Climate and nutrition represent urgent and interrelated crises that must be addressed in our changing world.
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Can We Make Food and Fashion More Sustainable?
The Forward Food & Fashion event at NYC Climate Week spotlighted the important role the food and fashion industries have to play in ensuring a sustainable future for the planet.
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Rising Wheat Prices and Unprecedented Demonstrations: Pakistani Protestors Demand Autonomy
Since January, thousands of protestors in Gilgit-Baltistan, a glaciated region of northern Pakistan, have been demanding a restoration of a recently revoked wheat subsidy in a push for political autonomy and economic justice.
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Student Workshop Spurs Columbia Dining to Sign NYC Plant-Powered Challenge
A capstone project in sustainable development leads to shifts in dining protocol at the university.
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Charting the Course for Innovations in Food Systems
A multi-session Climate Week event at Columbia included presentations, interactive activities, and panels on the most challenging and hopeful avenues for the future of food.
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Whole Food Systems: Jessica Fanzo Looks at How Food Connects With Everything Else
The Columbia Climate School’s newest faculty member strives to improve food systems to deliver healthy, equitable, and environmentally sustainable diets.
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Columbia Climate School Welcomes New Faculty Member Jessica Fanzo
Jessica Fanzo will be joining the Climate School faculty as professor of climate in July.
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Warfare, Not Climate, Is Driving Resurgent Hunger in Africa, Says Study
A 2009-2018 analysis of 14 countries teases out the factors behind reversals in food security. Conflict, not drought, is behind much of it.
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