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296. Impact of Climate Change on Safe Climatic Space for Agriculture
A paper published in One Earth in May 2021 asserts that under the worst-case climate change scenario, regions equivalent to one-third of the world's food production could fall outside the safe climatic space suitable for agriculture. The regions projected to be most vulnerable are those with inherently low resilience to climate change, such as South and Southeast Asia and the Sudan Sahel zone in Africa.
295. International Fascination of Plants Day
294. Double Pyramid of Food System: Healthier Food is Better for the Planet
The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (a think tank of the Barilla Group, an Italian company famous for pasta) has devised a "double pyramid" of food systems. By placing the health and climate pyramids side-by-side, the model aims to show that healthier foods are similar to foods with a lower environmental impact, thereby reducing the impact of food choices on the environment and climate change.
293. Publication of the JIRCAS-FFTC International Rice Blast Workshop Proceedings
292. Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions to Prevent Global Warming
291. Limitations of Technological Innovations in Solving the Food Crisis
In April 2021, an editorial in Nature Food pointed out the limitations of approaches that rely solely on technological innovations in achieving food security and sustainability, and discussed the need for traditional knowledge and behavioral change to solve the current food crisis.
290. Global Food Policy Report: Food System Transformation After COVID-19
289. Announcement of the New U.S. Climate Normals
288. Resource Security and Poverty Eradication
A paper published in Nature Sustainability in April 2021 discussed the importance of resource security in poverty eradication. According to this study, human demand for natural resources increasingly outstrips the speed of the Earth's biological recovery. As a result, the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate biomass has become a material constraint for human economies. The analysis showed that as of 2017, almost 72% of the world's population lived in countries where the supply of biological resources does not meet demand, and low-income countries were trapped in a situation called an ‘ecological poverty trap’.
287. Climate Change Summit Momentum
286. Science and Technology and the Food System
285. Addressing Low Fertilizer Inputs and Nutrient-poor Soils for Improving Rice Production in Africa
In Africa, there are large differences in topography and soil conditions even within a very small region, creating large variations in the yield response to a certain amount of fertilizer recommended within the region and reducing the efficiency of fertilizer use. In response to this, recent attempts have been made to develop decision-making tools for pinpointing and implementing appropriate fertilizer applications using drones and other remote sensing technologies to determine differences in soil conditions within a region at low cost. A JIRCAS paper published in Plant Production Science in 2019, provides a comprehensive review of the problems of insufficient fertilizer inputs and nutrient-poor soils in rice production in Africa, as well as measures to improve them, and received the 18th Japanese Society of Crop Science Best Paper Award.
284. Fruits and Vegetables: Input from the United Nations Food Systems Summit Scientific Group
The United Nations Food Systems Summit will be held in New York in September 2021. The Scientific Group consisting of leading researchers and scientists from around the world, which has been set up to support the process leading to the summit, has published a brief entitled “Fruits and Vegetables for Healthy Diets: Priorities for Food System Research and Action”, providing views and actions on making fruits and vegetables more available, accessible and desirable.
283. WeRise — Decision Support System for Rainfed Rice Cultivation Using Seasonal Climate Prediction
282. Highlights of the State of Global Climate 2020
In line with the climate change summit hosted by U.S. President Biden on April 22, 2021, the Japanese government has also announced a significant greenhouse gas emission target. A few days earlier, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published the State of the Global Climate 2020, and reported that 2020 in which people's lives have been affected by extreme weather events caused by artificial climate change.
281. Food for Thought on Earth Day: The Miracle Crop Quinoa and its Potential to Save the World
280. Diehard spirit challenge! Shrimp farming research Southeast Asia
279. Health checkup for rivers ― So many countries, so many ‘rivers’ ?! ―
Coral reefs, which are abundantly distributed on tropical and subtropical coasts, are terrains created by organisms called corals. Although the area is only about 0.1% of the earth's surface, about 90,000 species of organisms live in coral reefs and it is an important place from the perspective of biodiversity. However, coral reefs are currently in danger. JIRCAS targets areas in tropical and subtropical islands where coral reefs are distributed. We are implementing a project to develop and demonstrate the technologies for controlling the outflow of soil and excess nutrients from land through appropriate management of forests and farmlands and effective utilization of biological resources such as crop residues. The public mini-lecture “Health checkup for rivers: So many countries, so many ‘rivers’?!” introduces the state of our river water quality surveys and some of the findings. Please take a look!
278. Does eating yams cause twins? The secret of West African yam
277. Joint research to make delicious and useful fermented foods