Reported by the United Nations Environment Programme, the need to feed a growing number of people globally has led to more land being converted to cropland. If the current trends of unsustainable land use continue, nearly the size of Brazil of natural ...

Vietnam has been severely influenced by climate change and its "rice bowl", rice cultivation in Mekong delta region is being threatened. Rice-shrimp farming system has been popular in Mekong delta region in recent years since farmers can no more produ...

In the turn of the 21st Century, natural disasters around the world hard hit producing countries, leading to crop failure. Food prices skyrocketed and food security was threatened. Warren H. J. Kuo, professor of Agronomy in Taiwan was alarmed by the de...

In 2012, Katharina Unger, then a student of industrial design in Austria, came to Hong Kong for a short-term internship. By the meantime, she sought inspiration for her graduate project, entitled “Future Food”. Hong Kong, a metropolitan flavored with i...

Denmark, a small Nordic country, is consistently in the top ten happiest countries in the world, according to the World Happiness Report by the United Nations. In recent years, Danish people tackle the issue of food sustainability in their unique way. ...

Located in the Caribbean Sea, Cuba was used to be the backyard of the US, however, right after the revolution overthrowing the governing sovereignty in 1959 and the establishment of a socialist republic, sanctions have been imposed on the country by th...

Traditional animal husbandry occupies 30% of the earth’s surface, consumes 25% of the fresh water and emits more greenhouse gases than land, sea and air transportation combined. A dozen years ago, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

In the last century, the world saw the success of the Green Revolution. With the mechanization in agriculture, and the widespread use of fertilizer and pesticides, crop yield has multiplied in a few decades. Hunger was greatly reduced around the world....