Food Supply

Research conducted by: RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment

Reports (5)

Evaluation of the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response and Associated Toolkit — May 7, 2013

Assesses to what extent the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response's Guidelines and associated Toolkit are reaching their intended users and achieving their intended goals.

Perennial Polyculture Farming: Seeds of Another Agricultural Revolution? — Jun 17, 2007

Answers questions about perennial polyculture farming; discusses its association with reversing environmental degradation, redressing the loss of biodiversity, and reducing worldwide hunger, malnutrition, and energy use.

The Future of Genetically Modified Crops: Lessons from the Green Revolution — Aug 17, 2004

Investigates the circumstances and processes required to establish the new ''Gene Revolution'' in which genetically modified crops are tailored to address chronic agricultural problems in specific regions of the world.

Hitting America's Soft Underbelly: The Potential Threat of Deliberate Biological Attacks Against the U.S. Agricultural and Food Industry — May 2, 2004

Assesses the vulnerabilities of the agricultural sector and the food chain to a deliberate act of biological terrorism and explores the likely outcomes of a successful attack

Soviet agriculture since the September 1953 reforms. 15 September, 1955. — Jan 1, 1955

A discussion of the developments proposed after the 1953 Soviet agricultural reforms to reduce the importance of private production in total food supply. In particular, this study discusses USSR plans to increase the production of specific crops and ...

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