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1 Food security in the times of climate change
Michael Gross  Current Biology  Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages R1-R4 (January 2013) DOI: /j.cub Copyright © Terms and Conditions

2 Food crisis: Food insecurity is a large and growing problem in many countries, especially in the tropics. (Map: © Maplecroft Current Biology  , R1-R4DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © Terms and Conditions

3 Push–pull: Kenyan farmers trained to teach other farmers the push–pull approach pose with Lord David Sainsbury, who visited the project in Lord Sainsbury’s Gatsby Charitable Foundation funded development and implementation of the push–pull project for 15 years (1994–2009). (Photo: Courtesy of the Push–Pull Programme ( International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya.) Current Biology  , R1-R4DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © Terms and Conditions

4 Win–win: Both the black-breasted weaver and the grey-bellied cuckoo are ‘winners’ in that they thrive around high-yield agriculture, but due to the different shapes of their response curves, the weaver fares better with land sparing, while the cuckoo prefers land sharing strategies. (Photo: J.M.Garg Current Biology  , R1-R4DOI: ( /j.cub ) Copyright © Terms and Conditions


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