As many of you know, I moonlight as a sci-fi writer. My book Continent 7 just dropped on Amazon and Renee's adventures continue.
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Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate
The Conversation: Colombia's coffee industry is at risk due to unpredictable seasons, floods, landslides, droughts and pests. Farmers say they want to learn to adapt to these environmental changes but don't know how.
Food Security’s Red Herrings: GMOs and Organic
This post includes an excerpt from an op-ed I wrote for Thomson Reuters News Foundation and links to the full article. In the op-ed, I argue that our collective attention is spent so obsessively on marginal food security issues that it comes at the expense of more pressing matters.
Demystifying “big data” part 4: Machine learning
This piece is the final of four I will publish this spring in which I describe particular techniques used to make sense of or mine large data sets. This post covers machine learning.
Expert Q&A on food waste & inequality
During a webinar I hosted with Dr. Ken Foster and Dr. Jerry Shively on food waste and inequality, audience members submitted many questions we didn’t have time to answer. We’ve turned these questions into a public Q&A.
Demystifying “big data” part 3: Agent-based modeling
This piece is the third of four I will publish this spring in which I describe particular techniques used to make sense of or mine large data sets. This post covers agent-based modeling.
Demystifying “big data” part 2: Text mining
This piece is the second of four I will publish this spring in which I describe particular techniques used to make sense of or mine large data sets. This post covers text mining.
HOW TO FEED THE WORLD now available!
I'm very pleased to share that after several years of hard work, "How to Feed the World" is out now! If you’d like to purchase a copy of the book from Island Press, use the code 4FEED, which is good for a 20% discount.
Demystifying “big data” part 1: Network analysis
This piece is the first of four I will publish this spring in which I describe particular techniques used to make sense of or mine large data sets. This post covers network analysis.
Your personal news: Agenda setting in the 21st century
Where we historically saw mostly the same news stories, we do no longer. And where historically journalists set the agenda on what we saw, they no longer exclusively do. Does this matter? Is this good? Is it bad?
Dr. Jessica Eise 