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Sustainable Land Management can Provide Building Materials for Post-Disaster Recovery

May 20, 2015 Kristin Merony, State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that several million earthquakes occur in the world each year. Some, such as the devastating earthquake in Nepal and the series of earthquakes that destroyed infrastructure, homes and communities in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, capture global attention...

Forestry

A European Take on Food Security

May 20, 2015 Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

Just like America, Europe is trying to address the challenge of how to feed the 9 billion people who will populate the world by the year 2050. In fact, the theme of ExpoMilano2015 – the world’s fair being held in Milan, Italy, this year – is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.” On May 1, the...

Food and Nutrition Trade

Comparing the Baltic Sea and Chesapeake Bay Provides Lessons for More Cost-Effective Policies

April 28, 2015 Marc Ribaudo, Economic Research Service

Situated on two different continents and separated by thousands of miles, the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast of the United States and the Baltic Sea in northern Europe face remarkably similar problems. Both are relatively shallow basins of brackish water. Both marine areas suffer from...

Conservation

Removing Barriers to Agricultural Trade Ensures US Products Can Thrive in Foreign Markets

April 10, 2015 Secretary Tom Vilsack

Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 saw the United States once again make significant gains in the international trade as USDA expanded opportunities for American producers overseas. In FY14 American farmers and ranchers exported a record $152.5 billion of food and agricultural goods to consumers worldwide, an...

Trade
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