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FAO agri-food economist Stjepan Tanic walks through the fundamentals: the difference between food loss and food waste, and why it matters for Europe and Central Asia. Food loss and food waste sound like synonyms. What’s the difference? Imagine how everything we eat travels across a food chain, a complex journey that stretches from farm to fork. FAO studies show that an astounding one third of all…

Follow #BroadbandConnectsAmerica on social media for more on the new coalition. Today, Public Knowledge joined 17 other organizations to form the Broadband Connects America coalition. The Coalition is comprised of a wide range of consumer, rural, and social justice organizations committed to closing the digital divide. Coinciding with today’s launch, Broadband Connects America released the Principles to Connect Rural America -- five principles to serve as…

September 28, 1958—A Sunday comic strip by Gene Fawcett envisions a future of farming in which “fat plants” and “meat beets” are used to cut down on the amount of farmland devoted to cattle pasture. (Image: nextnature.net) A local, community-based food system certainly is not a new idea. It’s simply an idea that is being reassessed in response to growing public concerns about the current global food system. When I was growing up in south Missouri in the 1940s and early 1950s, our…

With cybercrime and data breaches on the rise , a top-level .BANK domain can give your financial institution an edge in online security. Offering superior protection against phishing attacks and spoofing, the .BANK domain is now the gold standard for online banking — helping financial institutions to differentiate their services and inspire greater consumer trust. Moving to a .BANK domain may seem daunting at first, but…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Midwest Dairy unveiled a new logo this week as part of the organization’s new vision, mission and strategic plan focused on bringing dairy to life for the consumer and giving them an excellent dairy experience. Serving as a visual connection between farmers and consumers, the new, more simple design is not only intended to convey the goodness of products Midwest dairy farmers so proudly produce but also, for the first time, to represent Midwest Dairy as one entity, no…

PORTLAND, Ore. and COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — New research from Pivot Group and Telecompetitor offers compelling insight into consumer perspectives and perceptions regarding Gigabit Internet and other relevant broadband applications. With Gigabit Internet currently dominating the broadband industry, the “GigaWhat? U.S. Broadband Awareness, Needs and Perceptions Study” bridges the Gigabit Internet movement with the realities of the consumer marketplace. This research provides…

Chances are that the metals that run the device on which you are reading this post were extracted by an artisanal miner, who may have been working in hazardous conditions with primitive equipment and without a legal mining title. Whether sold directly to a mining company or bartered through the local market, metals like tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold provide a livelihood for over 30 million…

An E Source White Paper David Podorson EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Grid-interactive water heaters (GIWHs) add bidirectional control to electric resistance water heaters, allowing a utility or third-party aggregator to rapidly toggle them off and on. This functionality turns a fleet of water heaters into a flexible energy-storage medium, capable of increasing and decreasing the load on the grid on a second-by-second basis. And GIWHs are currently the…