Smallholder farms in Uganda and Malaysia face similar challenges
The Importance of Cash Crops to Smallholders Over the last three to four years I’ve been lucky to work on a couple of development projects with smallholder farmers in Uganda …
Making the food system safer, the “Agromafia” and packing your lunch got easier
Happy New Year from the UC Food Observer! We hope your holidays were great…full of time with family, friends and good food. Here’s a brief wrap of some interesting reads …
The UC Food Observer chooses some important stories for you to read each work day. On today’s menu, in no particular order: 1. In defense of carbs: The Paleo diet …
U.S. pavilion at World’s Fair seeks to educate about food
The world’s fair – Expo 2015 – is taking place in Milan, Italy. It opened in May and will run through October. The United States is among the 145 countries …
“Blue zones”: human longevity takes a village…and a bean
A research team that includes a demographer, an evolutionary geneticist, a physician and a National Geographic fellow (and award-winning author) studies longevity around the world. They’ve identified “blue zones”…places where …
Fears for olive crop force Brussels to tackle spread of leaf scorch
Olive producers in Italy are facing a serious outbreak of a deadly plant disease – olive quick decline syndrome, also called leaf scorch. Its symptoms including leaf scorching, twig and branch die …