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4 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Welsh
Jessica Townsend feels for George RR Martin. The author of the bestselling middle-grade fantasy series Nevermoor has just released the fourth instalment, Silverborn, two-and-a-half years after it was supposed to come out in October 2022. Readers who were nine when the third book, Hollowpox, was released in 2020 had become full-blown teenagers by the time Silverborn hit bookshops in April.
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1 week ago | 
csis.org | Caitlin Welsh |Emma Dodd |Joseph W. Glauber
More than three years following the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine’s agriculture sector remains a primary target of Russia’s assaults. In attacking Ukraine’s agriculture sector, Russia seeks to diminish a major source of Ukraine’s revenue, undercut European support for Ukraine, and undermine Ukraine’s position as a global food exporter.
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4 weeks ago | 
csis.org | Caitlin Welsh |Zane Swanson
Policymakers frame U.S. food security in terms of the strength of the U.S. agriculture sector and the food security and nutrition status of Americans. The H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, has caused unprecedented damage to poultry flocks in the United States and contributed to record-high egg prices.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Caitlin Welsh
It’s 10.30 in the morning in the western Sydney suburb of St Clair, the sky low and white and muggy. Grant Perez is posing with his car as the Guardian’s photographer snaps away.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
csis.org | Zane Swanson |Caitlin Welsh
Across human history, food security has been strongly linked to peace and political stability. While the current global agrifood system remains remarkably productive, it is increasingly strained by shifting environmental conditions, growing food demands, and geopolitical tensions.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
csis.org | Emma Dodd |Caitlin Welsh
More than one thousand days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, landmine and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contamination on Ukrainian farmland remains a complex and pervasive challenge for Ukraine’s farmers and government, its allies, and the global mine action community.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
csis.org | Caitlin Welsh |Joseph W. Glauber |Emma Dodd
Russia’s recent attacks on Greater Odesa port infrastructure and grain-carrying vessels in the Black Sea marked the most intense attacks on Ukraine’s agricultural infrastructure in over a year. In September, according to the United Nations, Russian attacks damaged grain infrastructure and six civilian vessels in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
csis.org | Zane Swanson |Anita Kirschenbaum |Caitlin Welsh
In April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces spread into a deadly civil war across Sudan. Now, 16 months since the onset of the conflict, extreme violence and restrictions to the flow of humanitarian aid have led to widespread acute food insecurity and the worst internal displacement crisis in the world.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Caitlin Welsh |Princess R. Cabotaje |Vanessa Marcelino |Thomas Watts
AbstractMolecular hydrogen (H2) is among the most central, but least understood, metabolites in the human gastrointestinal tract (gut). H2 gas is produced in large quantities during bacterial fermentation and consumed as an energy source by bacteria and archaea. Disruption of H2 cycling is linked to gastrointestinal disorders, infections, and cancers, with H2 used as an indicator of gut dysfunction through breath tests.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
csis.org | Zane Swanson |Caitlin Welsh
Global leaders and policymakers continue to hesitate on the question of famine in Gaza. Some have called Gaza’s hunger crisis a famine—notably, the heads of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UN World Food Programme, as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC)—while others continue to hedge, and no formal declaration of famine has been made in Gaza.
