During the 2021 United Nations General Assembly Science Summit, leaders discussed the role of biology in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One SDG of particular interest is “Goal 2: No hunger,” which sets the objective of ending hunger and achieving food security with improved nutrition through promoting sustainable agriculture. The urgency of this […]
John Patrick Casellas Connors, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University and a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2018, is the lead author of a chapter in a new book titled Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The chapter, titled “Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World,” was posthumously co-authored by Prof. […]
Ariana Gunderson, a 2018 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a graduate of the Metropolitan College (MET) Gastronomy program, recently authored two articles about food during pandemics. In the first article, published in the journal Food and Foodways, she explores how COVID-19 has changed the ways San Franciscans eat in public, and how the city’s […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a recent paper proposing a new framework for estimating cropping intensity (CI), a measure of crop harvest frequency that is a key indicator of food production. In the paper, published in the journal Remote Sensing of […]
Qi Zhang, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been awarded a Microsoft AI for Earth grant as principal investigator to support his research on monitoring the dynamics of cropping cycles using long-term satellite imagery. Increasing the frequency of crop harvests can be a climate-friendly means of […]
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the EPA have estimated that food production by itself accounts for nearly a quarter of all greenhouse emissions in the world. What we eat, where it comes from, and how food gets to the table impacts our world in more ways than we may think. Join […]
Catherine West, a Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently presented a paper titled “Human Behavioral Ecology and the Complexities of Arctic Foodways” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The paper, which […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Agricultural Diversity Across Scales: Key to Building a Resilient Global Food System,” was written by John Patrick Casellas Connors, a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2018 and currently an Assistant Professor in the […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is serving on the Organizing Committee for the second annual GlobalFood+ Speed Talks Symposium to be hosted by the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. The symposium will take place at the Behrakis Auditorium of the Jaharis […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new paper in its Issues in Brief series. The paper, titled “Governance Issues in China’s Food Sufficiency vs. Virtual Water Debate,” was written by Junda Jin, a 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Boston University. Rapid […]