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Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries
TL;DR: Rapid increases in the rates of obesity and overweight are widely documented, from urban and rural areas in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to populations in countries with higher income levels.
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Diversified farming systems: an agroecological, systems-based alternative to modern industrial agriculture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define diversified farming systems (DFS) as farming practices and landscapes that intentionally include functional biodiversity at multiple spatial and/or temporal scales in order to maintain ecosystem services that provide critical inputs to agriculture, such as soil fertility, pest and disease control, water use efficiency and pollination.
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Can cities become self-reliant in food?
TL;DR: In this article, the potential for local self-reliance in food for a typical post-industrial North American city was determined, and three distinct scenarios were developed to determine the potential level of food selfreliance for the City of Cleveland, which has been plagued with home foreclosures and resulting vacant land.
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Strawberry fields forever? Urban agriculture in developed countries: a review
Hoi Fei Mok,Virginia G. Williamson,James Grove,Kristal Burry,S. Fiona Barker,Andrew J. Hamilton +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the need for better understanding of the following five aspects if urban agriculture is to make a meaningful contribution to food security and social well-being in the future: (1) the impacts of continued urban sprawl and loss of peri-urban agricultural land; (2) appropriate government and institutional support at local, regional, and country levels; (3) the role of urban agriculture in self-sufficiency of cities; (4) the risks posed by pollutants from agriculture to urban ecosystems and from urban ecosystems to agriculture; and (5) the
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Corporate cooptation of organic and fair trade standards
Daniel Jaffee,Philip H. Howard +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the two most significant food system alternatives (organics and fair trade) focusing on corporate involvement in establishing and renegotiating the standards undergirding these initiatives is presented.
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Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries
TL;DR: Rapid increases in the rates of obesity and overweight are widely documented, from urban and rural areas in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to populations in countries with higher income levels.
Journal ArticleDOI
Diversified farming systems: an agroecological, systems-based alternative to modern industrial agriculture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define diversified farming systems (DFS) as farming practices and landscapes that intentionally include functional biodiversity at multiple spatial and/or temporal scales in order to maintain ecosystem services that provide critical inputs to agriculture, such as soil fertility, pest and disease control, water use efficiency and pollination.
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An open access repository of images on plant health to enable the development of mobile disease diagnostics
David P. Hughes,Marcel Salathé +1 more
TL;DR: These data are the beginning of an on-going, crowdsourcing effort to enable computer vision approaches to help solve the problem of yield losses in crop plants due to infectious diseases.
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Can cities become self-reliant in food?
TL;DR: In this article, the potential for local self-reliance in food for a typical post-industrial North American city was determined, and three distinct scenarios were developed to determine the potential level of food selfreliance for the City of Cleveland, which has been plagued with home foreclosures and resulting vacant land.
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Strawberry fields forever? Urban agriculture in developed countries: a review
Hoi Fei Mok,Virginia G. Williamson,James Grove,Kristal Burry,S. Fiona Barker,Andrew J. Hamilton +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the need for better understanding of the following five aspects if urban agriculture is to make a meaningful contribution to food security and social well-being in the future: (1) the impacts of continued urban sprawl and loss of peri-urban agricultural land; (2) appropriate government and institutional support at local, regional, and country levels; (3) the role of urban agriculture in self-sufficiency of cities; (4) the risks posed by pollutants from agriculture to urban ecosystems and from urban ecosystems to agriculture; and (5) the