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The Center for Development (ZEF), located in Bonn/Germany, celebrated its 25th (+2) jubilee in October – an occasion for a three-day symposium attended by almost 100 former doctoral students from 40 countries as well as…

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Countries hardest hit by hunger and climate change are also the ones with the lowest volume of agri-food research targeting them, according to an analysis by an international research team scoping more than six million…

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Addressing soil health is recognised as a key strategy to improve fertiliser efficiency, and this is particularly important in Africa, where fertiliser is a scarce resource. Our authors have established the potential…

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The Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (r4d programme), run by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), ended in April 2024.The…

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The INTERFACES project backs four regional ventures run by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and aimed at promoting sustainable land management in sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission focuses on developing…

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CGIAR, the world’s largest public-funded agricultural research network, has secured more than USD 890 million to accelerate progress against the ongoing global food and climate crises. With this funding, CGIAR will…

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The estimated share of food that goes to waste globally has remained unchanged for years. And yet there are numerous companies which have developed clever solutions to tackle the problem at the various stages of the…

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Recycling organic waste into soil amendments and animal feed through a transdisciplinary approach – this is what the RUNRES project, launched in four sub-Saharan African countries four years ago, seeks to achieve. Now…

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Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have succeeded in producing an important amino acid from the greenhouse gas CO2 by using a type of artificial photosynthesis.

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An international team of scientists have just used army ants as a sampling “tool” for plant and animal viruses circulating in a deep forest in Gabon. This innovative approach to viral ecology opens up new avenues for…

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