Scientific World

An integrated project has calculated drought risks world-wide in high resolution. In the project, drought hazards were established via remote surveillance and with hydrological modelling and yield models.

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Rice is the main food staple for more than half of the global population, and as the population grows, demand for rice is expected to grow, too. The challenge is producing more rice on existing cropland, and doing so…

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Traditional weather and climate forecasting rely predominantly on numerical models. A new prediction framework developed by the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact (PIK) may save the lives of hundreds of…

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In some regions, accessing clean drinking water is becoming more and more difficult. An international team of researchers are optimising metal-organic frameworks at atom level with which water can be “harvested” from the…

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Researchers have sequenced the genome of the shea tree, a vital social and economic crop best known as a source for the popular ingredient shea butter, which is found in products like cosmetics and chocolate.

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An international team of researchers from 41 organisations has assembled chickpea’s (chana) pan-genome by sequencing the genomes of 3,366 chickpea lines from 60 countries. Grown in more than 50 countries, chickpea is the…

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New research from Conservation International maps the places on Earth that humanity must protect to avoid a climate catastrophe. These ecosystems contain what researchers call “irrecoverable carbon” , dense stores of…

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Animal production is a major contributor to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to the feed production and global trade. Aquaculture is no exception when considering the species which are “fed”, i.e.…

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Nobody doubts that the world’s meat consumption is far from being sustainable. For many people, and also for many reasons, making do without animal protein is out of the question. For some years now, cellular-based meat…

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How can farming get fit for climate change? The issue already arises in seed production. Scientists from the Research Group “Right Seeds” at the University of Oldenburg/Germany argue that genetic diversity and regionally…

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