Agriculture
Our complex food future and how to respond
March 1, 2012
Today’s global challenges will significantly affect how we grow our food. But these challenges are so complex and intertwined that response measures require collaboration and a broad, integrated lens.
Also labeled: Biofuels, Climate change, Economics, Food, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Trade
MIT students to visit Washington to explore science policy careers
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New Federal Science Agency Visits program sends delegates to meet with scientists and policymakers at federal agencies to see science policy in practice.
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Anaerobic digesters provide a win-win opportunity for agriculture and energy.
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Anthropologist examines the ‘everyday ethics’ of everything from cheese making to motherhood.
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Researchers model the effects of competition for global water resources on agriculture.
Toward greener chemistry
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Breaking up phosphorus with ultraviolet light may offer a safer, simpler way to build many industrial and household chemicals.
In the World: Nanotech on the farm
March 12, 2010
MIT chemical engineer Paula Hammond lends her nanotechnology expertise to farmers in Africa.
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