A labour and political ecology expert looks back at imperialistic logic and how chemical fertilisers have repeatedly served as strategic objectives and weapons, particularly in wartime.
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Fertilizer is more expensive and in shorter supply. Without the right amounts of fertilizer at specific times, yields drop, food prices increase and food shortages result.
It’s a positive step, but there will be a few challenges to realising the full benefits to public health.
A simple switch from regular salt to salt substitute alternatives will help reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. It would also provide much-needed health expenditure savings.
This key fertiliser ingredient is subject to sudden price spikes.
Farmers are contending with huge spikes in fertilizer prices. The Biden administration is paying US companies to boost synthetic fertilizer production, but there are other, more sustainable options.
Potatoes contain many vitamins and nutrients which are essential for good health.
Following a healthy diet may lower the risk of disease complications and allow patients to live well despite having the disease.
The spread of tawny crazy ants may be driven, in part, by their need for calcium. The calcium-rich limestone bedrock of the lower U.S. Midwest may provide ideal conditions for populations to explode.
Anti-nutrients naturally occur in food and can block the amount of other nutrients available for your body to use. But their effects aren’t all bad, which is why they’re undergoing an image makeover.
The planet is more similar to Earth than any other – except when it comes to supporting life.
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Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences & the Center for Exoplanet Science, University of St Andrews
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Professor of Global Food Systems, University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Oklahoma State University
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate of Ecology, University of Dayton
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Peneliti Senior, National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD), Ministry of Health Indonesia
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Lecturer, University of Nairobi
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Senior Science Project Manager, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
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Executive Director, George Institute Australia; Professor of Medicine, UNSW