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World Food Day 2019

From crop domestication, to fisheries, to crop and livestock disease, to agricultural policy - a collection of 15 articles from Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Patrick Goymer Oct 16, 2019

The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops

Synchronized failure of global crop production

The complexity of sustainable diets

Focus rural land policies on ecosystem services, not agriculture

Global change in marine aquaculture production potential under climate change

Towards a greener Common Agricultural Policy

An inside view on pesticide policy

Waves of endemic foot-and-mouth disease in eastern Africa suggest feasibility of proactive vaccination approaches

The use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon

Ecological networks reveal resilience of agro-ecosystems to changes in farming management

Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture

Changing the agriculture and environment conversation

Productive instability of coral reef fisheries after climate-driven regime shifts

Rapid and lasting gains from solving illegal fishing

A western Sahara centre of domestication inferred from pearl millet genomes

Photo credit: Alfred Portátil, Alberto Navarro and José Vicente López-Bao from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0724-y