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Civil war hinders crop production and threatens food security in Syria

Li Mi

Assessing the impact of violent conflict on Syrian agriculture is challenging given data limitations and attributability issues. Using satellite data at 30 m spatial resolution, we found that the extent of productive cropland showed greater interannual var ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Alone or With Others? Understanding Eating Episodes of College Students with Mobile Sensing

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Understanding food consumption patterns and contexts using mobile sensing is fundamental to build mobile health applications that require minimal user interaction to generate mobile food diaries. Many available mobile food diaries, both commercial and in r ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Microstructured Fibers for the Production of Food

Véronique Michaud, Francesco Stellacci, Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Federica Sordo, Emma-Rose Janecek

Food engineering faces the difficult challenge of combining taste, i.e., tailoring texture and rheology of food matrices with the balanced intake of healthy nutrients. In materials science, fiber suspensions and composites have been developed as a versatil ...

Wiley2019

Translating Science Into Business Innovation: The Case of Open Food and Nutrition Data Hackathons

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi, Heidi Christina Gautschi

In this article, we explore the use of hackathons and open data in corporations’ open innovation portfolios, addressing a new way for companies to tap into the creativity and innovation of early-stage startup culture, in this case applied to the food and n ...

2018

Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Pavel Vaskan, Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez

Meeting the growing food demand with minimum impact on the environment is a major challenge to face for ensuring a more sustainable food production. To tackle this problem, in this article we present a novel systematic method for agriculture planning that ...

Elsevier2017

Future Perspectives Towards the Use of Nanomaterials for Smart Food Packaging and Quality Control

Francesco Stellacci

In this Progress Report some recent trends and future perspectives towards the use of nanomaterials for smart food packaging and quality control of food are given. The examples and discussion are meant to illustrate the potential use of nanotechnology for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Resilience and reactivity of global food security

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

The escalating food demand by a growing and increasingly affluent global population is placing unprecedented pressure on the limited land and water resources of the planet, underpinning concerns over global food security and its sensitivity to shocks arisi ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

A Distributed Intelligent Sensing Approach for Environmental Monitoring Applications

William Christopher Evans

Scientific reports from around the world present us with the undeniable fact that the global ecosystem is undergoing severe change. As this shift accelerates, it is ever more critical that we are able to quantify the local effects of such changes, and furt ...

EPFL2015

RoSe: A sub-GHz wireless sensor platform with housing integrated overmolded antenna

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Pierre-André Farine, Francesco Merli, Alexis Boegli, Mitko Tanevski

A wireless sensor platform for use in ultralow-power wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is presented. The proposed round sensor (RoSe) node is physically robust, is resistant to humidity, and has a housing that can be in direct contact with food. These charac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

The NutriChip project - translating technology into nutritional knowledge

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Sandro Carrara, Paolo Silacci, Flurina Schwander

Advances in food transformation have dramatically increased the diversity of products on the market and, consequently, exposed consumers to a complex spectrum of bioactive nutrients whose potential risks and benefits have mostly not been confidently demons ...

Cambridge University Press2012