Food systems

A full-scale shift toward healthier diets, combined with improved farm productivity and a halving of food waste, could reduce global agricultural land use roughly by six per cent by 2050 and lead to a 42 per cent decline…

Plant breeding

Scientists found a gene that helps rice flower in the cooler morning hours, allowing it to avoid heat stress and protect grain formation and yields in warm regions.

Water

Climate change, land use and water use are significantly altering the global freshwater cycle at an increasing pace. This produces more widespread and frequent dry and wet periods, pushing freshwater systems further…

One Health

A new article published in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience proposes a strategy for “One Plant Health” management across the continent and aims to address challenges such as climate change and emerging plant viruses.

Livestock

Grazing systems form critical livelihood bases for hundreds of millions of people across diverse ecological and socioeconomic contexts, yet there is a lack of a global understanding of their sensitivity to climate…

Forestry

Can cleared rainforests recover and can extinct species return? A recent study by a German-Ecuadorian research team found that there is a real chance of regeneration not only for plants but also for a diversity of animal…

Research

Kelebonye Ramolekwa was recently recognised as one of 30 recipients of the prestigious 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Award, which honours exceptional young scientists across…

Climate change

Scientists warn that the Amazon is nearing a tipping point which could transform rainforest into savannah. A recent study, using participatory systems-based methods in neighbouring areas of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru,…

A herd of goats is grazing on grass and bushes.
Agriculture

A global study has revealed the conditions under which non-native plants thrive in the world’s many dryland regions and the factors that limit their spread.

Fertilisation

A 60-year global study covering 205 countries and regions has uncovered the evolutionary patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency (NUE and PUE) in four major staple crops of rice, wheat, maize and soybean. Led…