Scientific World

Agriculture

In many South Asian countries, rice straw burning is a common practice, resulting in bad air quality. In addition, agricultural production is often characterised by the overuse of natural resources as well as gender…

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Climate change

In a new study, scientists of the German Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) have investigated the effects of climate change on major cereal crops such as wheat, maize, millet (pictured here),…

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Biodiversity

A new study estimates that natural forest recovery could capture approximately 226 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon, but only if we also reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving these results requires community-driven efforts…

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Plant breeding

In an effort to help curb the rising cases of diabetes globally, scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), a CGIAR Research Center, have identified the genes responsible for low and ultra-low…

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Agroecology

Should mineral fertiliser use be increased in sub-Saharan Africa? A team of African and European agronomists provide a nuanced response to this question in an article published in Outlook on Agriculture. Their analysis…

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Plant breeding

Collaboration between the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Corteva Agriscience has yielded three 'platinum-standard' genome sequences* for pearl millet varieties, providing…

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Biodiversity

In a survey on the impacts of rainforest clearing on mosquitos and their viruses, scientists have demonstrated that the destruction of tropical rainforests reduces the diversity of mosquito species. At the same time,…

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Agriculture

Today’s grain production could be maintained with a significantly lower global level of overall fertiliser if the application of nitrogen fertiliser was evenly distributed across the areas under cultivation. This is…

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Forestry

One of the world’s biggest ecological experiments, co-led by the University of Oxford/United Kingdom, on the island of Borneo, has revealed that replanting logged tropical forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can…

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Cocoa production

How can cocoa cultivation be improved with the right pollination technique? A team of researchers, also from Germany’s Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg (JMU), have looked at how this can best be achieved.

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