What is Food Security and Why is it Under Threat?

By Daisy Quincey-Brooke – “200 million or more people have starved to death or died of hunger-related disease in the past two decades, and as many as a billion people are chronically undernourished today” (Ehrlich et al, 1993:2) [1]. 27 years later and around 2 billion people still don’t have regular access to safe and…

Slash and burn: A hot topic

by Erin Jones  – Approximately 2.9 billion hectares of land is affected by shifting cultivation globally[1]. Often named ‘slash and burn’, shifting cultivation is an age-old practice unique to tropical locations in Africa, Asia and Latin America[2]. It involves the cutting and burning of natural material, which is replaced by agricultural crops, followed by an…

Water: A basic human right

by Jessica Dean –  It is 2020 and clean water is still inaccessible for 2 billion people worldwide. That is one in every three people living without a resource, that we would all agree, is a basic human right necessary for survival[1]. Kamau and Njiru (2018) address this global issue with a focus on water sanitation…