food and policy
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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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Bollinger Convening: Unlocking the Potential of Universities to End Hunger and Malnutrition
How can powerful institutions like universities address seemingly intractable issues like global hunger?
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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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A Proposal to Decouple Food Systems From Deforestation in Brazil
Students from the M.P.A. in Environmental Science and Policy program traveled to Brazil to present their policy proposal at the 2023 Global Public Policy Network Conference.
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Expanding Global Cold Chains: Effective Adaptation, or Dangerous Contribution to Climate Change?
Cooling technologies, including refrigerators and industrial chillers, can prevent food waste and are increasingly necessary in our warming climate. Are there ways to minimize their climate impacts?
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The Middle East Dries Up—Another Case Study in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
As seductive as it is, depleting non-renewable aquifers to grow food is fundamentally unsustainable for the long term, as Saudi Arabia and other nations are finding out. According to a recent article by Lester Brown, in the 1970s the world’s largest oil producer realized it could use oil-drilling technology to tap deep underwater aquifers and—amazingly,…
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Changing the Urban Relationship to Food
With an Italian background, from a culture of food, as biologist and one time theatre producer, to me it makes sense to work with a research group that has the courage to break many taboos and re-discuss academic assumptions in an open and innovative way.
The first Earth Day in 1970 ignited a movement to stop polluting our planet. This Earth Month, join us in our commitment to realizing a just and sustainable future for our planet. Visit our Earth Day website for ideas, resources, and inspiration.
