Soil and water salinity and associated problems are a major challenge for global food production.
Elucidating relationships between the soil food web, soil processes, and agroecosystem function is a critical step toward a more sustainable agriculture.
Enteric viruses are an important food safety concern and have been associated with many foodborne disease outbreaks.

Aquaculture and animal rearing for meat has increased exceedingly to meet the demands of ever-increasing population.
Approximately 70% of the aquatic-based production of animals is fed aquaculture, whereby animals are provided with high-protein aquafeeds.
As a response to the worldwide challenge raised by soil degradation, Conservation Agriculture (CA) was proposed to help restoring the three main soil functions, i.e.

The effectiveness of active packaging systems with green tea extract and oregano essential oil was checked for their use in sliced cooked ham.
An Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography combined with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC–ToF-MS) method has been developed for determination of nine mycotoxins, namely aflatoxins (AFB1, A
The number of countries with a national development plan has more than doubled, from about 62 in 2006 to 134 in 2018.
Globally, industrial agriculture threatens critical ecosystem processes on which crop production depends, while 815 million people are undernourished and many more suffer from malnutrition.