Food Supply

Report

Perennial Polyculture Farming and the Next Agricultural Revolution

Ideally, improved agricultural practices should continue to increase food production while reducing environmental damage and other undesirable effects of current methods. Perennial polyculture farming could be an important step toward realizing that goal.

Journal Article

The Social Construction of Anemia in School Shelters for Indigenous Children in Mexico

Indigenous children in school shelters in Mexico suffer from anemia in spite of food that is subsidized, prepared, and served to them.

Journal Article

The U.S. Agricultural System: A Target for Al-Qaeda?

Discusses the Impact of a major act of agricultural bio-terrorism in the United States.

Report

The Future of Genetically Modified Crops: Lessons from the Green Revolution

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.

Report

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

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

Research Brief

How to Address the Threat of Agroterrorism

The U.S. agriculture sector and the food industry in general have received little attention with respect to protection against terrorist incidents. How are livestock and produce vulnerable? What would the consequences of an agroterrorism attack be?

Commentary

The US Agricultural Sector: A New Target for Terrorism?

Published commentary by RAND staff.

Report

Soviet agriculture since the September 1953 reforms. 15 September, 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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Elliott Brennan

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Tamara Dubowitz

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Matthew Kubasak

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Alina I. Palimaru

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Karen M. Sudkamp

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Patricia A. Stapleton

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Andrea Richardson

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Temusa Rukundo