environment

September 17 2011
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Africa College Conference on food security, health and Impact

Over 170 people attended the first Africa College International Conference on Food Security, Health and Impact held in Leeds from 22-24th June, 2011. This looked at the complex challenges of achieving food security in the context of global warming,...

March 16 2011
Population adiposity and climate change

In the paper, Edwards P and Roberts I (2009) "Population adiposity and climate change" Int. J. Epidemiol. 38 (4), find that BMI has environmental benefits.

March 11 2011
Sustainability of seafood production and consumption

The Journal of Cleaner Production has a special issue dedicated to sustainable seafood, with a suite of papers covering a range of topics. The stated purpose of the special issue is to bring together a series of papers that will form a nucleus for the...

March 11 2011
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The Common Fisheries Policy: getting the reform ball rolling

A speech by Commissioner Joe Borg at the Baltic Sea 2020 conference on achieving sustainable fisheries, included this reference to climate change: “Fisheries can no longer operate in isolation. Instead, its activities must gel with others, such as...

March 11 2011
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Plenty of fish in the Sea?

The Institute of European Environmental Policy has recently published its 21st edition of El Anzuelo, a newsletter focusing on fisheries and the environment. This edition includes the impact of climate change on fisheries and the marine environment,...

March 10 2011
Life Cycle : Improving Sustainability Assessments in Seafood

The paper, "Life Cycle Considerations for Improving Sustainability Assessments in Seafood Awareness Campaigns", reflects on the use of Life Cycle Assessments to better understand and manage global salmon production systems.

It argues that LCA...

March 8 2011
India: Rise in GHG emissions

India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose by 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007 with the energy sector contributing over half of the emissions, according to a report published by the Indian Government’s Minstry of Environment and Forests...

March 3 2011
Is wildlife conservation compatible with arable farming?

In the article 'Is wildlife conservation compatible with arable farming? Evaluating the options for sustainable agriculture' RELU (2010) funded research that:

March 3 2011
Edible entomological environmentalism

This should get you out into the garden.  If you don’t want to get your hands dirty, you can buy a half dozen chocolate coated ants or worms at Fortnum and Mason’s for a mere £7.
 
Ooonincx G A B, van Itterbeeck J, Heetkamp M J W, van den...

March 3 2011
Food Environment Atlas

The US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has published a Food Environment Atlas of the US, which provides a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access health food and its success in doing so.