Bananas make up one of the largest tropical fruit export chains, with 20 million metric tons of bananas exported annually; a whopping 100 billion bananas are eaten globally each year. According to a ...

Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living.

Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno have received a $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to find out whether cactus pear can become a viable biofuel crop.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2, SDG 12, and SDG 15. As global temperatures continue to rise and extreme weather events become more frequent, the urgent need for ...

As the saying goes, there are plenty more fish in the sea—but climate change is rapidly challenging that notion, with fish ...

Climate change may relocate cocoa farming in Colombia, with lowland regions becoming less reliable and higher elevations gaining suitability.

Food accounts for about one-quarter of all human-caused heat-trapping pollution. Meanwhile, extreme events fueled by our warming climate are impacting every stage of the food supply chain and driving ...

Food security is under threat. Extreme weather events sparked by climate change are resulting in droughts, flooding, severe high temperatures, dangerously low temperatures, and increasingly ...

Animal welfare, human health and climate change are not three separate problems in India but a single crisis sharing a common root of food systems designed without mechanisms to account for animal ...

Australia’s worrying future under climate change was laid bare last week when the first National Climate Risk Assessment was released. It revealed extreme heat, fires, floods, droughts and coastal ...