Human Services

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59%-98% above current levels. In…

Every year, almost 1 in 6 Americans gets a foodborne illness, and about 3,000 people die from it, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. Picnics and parties…

Through the traditional cuisine Mujai serves at her café, she promotes the consumption of neglected and underutilized edible plant species found in and around her village. These forgotten plants are usually foraged…

By Krishen Mehta & Piyush Tewari During the early hours of January 30, 2022, an SUV on India’s National Highway 48 jumped over the median and rammed head-on into an…

China is experiencing historic flooding that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and swallowed homes and vehicles. Two provinces in the south of the country increased flood warnings on Tuesday, as Reuters reported. While…

It’s already been a month since I returned from my visit to Minnesota, where I took a closer look at the state of regenerative agriculture in the bread basket. Since then,…

Dave Chokshi is a clinical professor of population health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital. As commissioner of the New York City…

Women in science are less likely than their male counterparts to receive authorship credit for their work, a study shows. Researchers used a large set of administrative data from universities…

GRACE Communications Foundation recently released new tools to help consumers, students, researchers, and policymakers understand the water footprint of food. The two tools—a quiz and resource guide—offer information about the…

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Children growing up in more disadvantaged neighborhoods – meaning those with poor housing quality, more poverty…

A hideous contradiction is playing out in war-torn Ukraine. Thousands of Ukrainians are starving in cities besieged by Russian forces. Meanwhile, the country’s grain stores are bursting with food, and…

The first ever Tweet, published on 21 March 2006, was “just setting up my twttr”. Fifteen years later, in March 2021, this piece of internet paraphernalia with no apparent value sold for…