The Fungus That Threatens the World April 4, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Fungal disease in wheat crops has been a serious but controllable problem, but a newer strain of what’s called “stem rust” has scientists worried about the global food supply.
Pollution Knows No Borders March 28, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment See how food and products move around the world Where do your food and products come from? Watch their movement around the globe in this series of interactive data visualizations from Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab. To explore the interconnectedness of our global economy interactively, visit PureEarth.org.
The Changing Arctic Diet: Adjusting to a Foreign Food System March 21, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The Inuit’s rapid dietary shift from harvested to store-bought food is fraught with nutritional, financial, and cultural consequences. In only a few generations, the Inuit have undergone an important dietary transition. As harvested country foods, such as arctic char and caribou, are supplemented and sometimes completely replaced with store-bought groceries, the Inuit suffer the consequences of an imperfect food system seemingly transposed from southern Canada. Produced by student fellow, Julie De Meulemeester.