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In 2018, Rutgers University made a move that hundreds of other universities before it had made: It switched its online learning platform from Sakai a free, community-sourced system to Canvas, which is owned by a company called Instructure.
The switch was significant: Now the university was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for a product that didn’t have to be transparent about what it did with the information and data it was mining from its users. Such systems are constantly recording users’ interactions with it how long it takes a student to complete an assignment, for example, or her deleted words and keystrokes, and users’ IP addresses.
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BANGLADESH: The country, dependent on production of chili peppers and other agricultural goods, is vulnerable to climate shocks. SOUTH SUDAN: Heavy floods, as seen here in Panthau, have displaced hundreds of thousands and worsened malnutrition. Rehman Asad/Barcroft Media/Getty Images and Albert Gonalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images
Food security is not just about consuming enough calories but also adequate nutrition. This means taking in macronutrients carbohydrates, fats, and proteins as well as micronutrients, which are vitamins and minerals. Such diets are far out of reach for people living on less than $1.90 per day at 2011 international prices, which aid officials define as the threshold for extreme poverty.
Not surprisingly, the world’s most populous and wealthy countries contribute the most to the crisis in food sustainability. Roughly 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are clustered in four countries the United States, China, India and Brazil. Since 1990, roughly 24 percent of global Greenhouse Gas Emissions can be attributed to the food system and our disproportionate reliance on livestock. Further exacerbating the problem is the methane produced in the agriculture industry, which is ~30 to ~80 times as deleterious to the environment as carbon dioxide.
The United States suffers from its own acute national challenges. Estimates suggest 23 million people live in so-called “food deserts” low-income areas with poor access to healthy food. The pandemic, which has led to over 50 million Americans facing food insecurity, has illustrated the weakness in our food system and supply chain resiliency. Americans in lower income segments spend 30-40 percent of their inc
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