The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños/Philippines and its global partners have introduced Green Nutritious Super Rice (GNSR), a new generation of rice varieties designed to address the twin…
What would happen if farmers around the globe were to switch over to sustainable pest management? A new study has analysed the global effects of such a transformation for the first time. The study is based on assessments…
A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), in Leipzig/Germany has analysed the zooplankton communities in the White Nile and Blue Nile in Khartoum/Sudan. This is the…
A new 2025 report from the EAT-Lancet Commission highlights that current food systems are harming planetary boundaries and human health, but a transformation to healthy, sustainable and just systems is possible. The…
Wheat is one of the world’s staple crops, feeding billions of people every day. A research team in the USA have now detected a rare gene in wheat growing three ovaries per flower instead of one. The discovery might lead…
Kazakhstan is releasing its first drought- and heat-tolerant variety of alfalfa, one of the world’s most important feed crops. Developed thanks to wild relatives seeds stored in local and global genebanks, the new…
Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland have found traditional wheat varieties from Asia that harbour several resistance-conferring…
A new study by Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich/Germany shows the extent to which human influence is altering natural land carbon stocks. The findings provide important insights for climate policy.
An international team of 21 scientists prescribe ways to use food systems to halt and reverse land degradation in a new study, underlining that doing so must become a top global priority to mitigate climate change and…
By 2050, sub-Saharan Africa can grow enough grains like maize, wheat and millet to feed its own population – without any further expansion of agricultural land, as a new study reveals. To achieve its potential, however,…
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