Monthly Archives: February 2010

Edible geography

A great site filled with maps and statistics to get you slightly depressed about the vast amount of unhealthiness across the United States of America and its often association with poverty. Here is one map showing fast food expenditure per … Continue reading

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How are we going to feed 9 billion people in 2050?

We can’t even do it now, with at least 1 billion currently hungry. A new paper in Science describes how this can be done. The article is actually positive and provides solutions. The abstract reads: Continuing population and consumption growth … Continue reading

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A Columbia student shares views on global undernutrition

I taught a class on global undernutrition and a student posted a blog on the lecture and personal thoughts from it. Nice to see students taking class to blog.

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