Scientific World

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics released a semi-erect chickpea variety that can be machine-harvested. With standard machinery, 2.25 tons can now be harvested within 75 minutes. This…

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Pyrethroid insecticides used to kill both farm pests and malaria-carrying mosquitoes. However, in recent years, a dramatic increase in resistance of malaria vectors in most African countries has been observed. Scientists…

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Climate change will severely impact global food production, causing an estimated 529,000 deaths by 2050 from resulting diet shifts compared with a future without higher carbon emissions, a study by English scientists…

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Eating fortified rice increases the risk of hookworm infections, a study in Cambodian schoolchildren shows, suggesting that the rice’s added nutrients inadvertently help parasites grow.

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Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields.

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The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is intended to raise awareness of the value of biodiversity. The first assessments on the importance of pollinators for food supply will be…

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As hybrid plants provide a very high agricultural yield for only one generation, new hybrid seeds need to be produced every year. However, natural cloning via seeds might enable the efficiency of such plants to be passed…

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A new study by African scientists has identified essential nutrients in an edible insect known as stink bug and suggests it as an alternative food source to help meet the dietary demands of an increasing human…

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In an enhanced strategic partnership under the Korea-Africa Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (KAFACI) a new generation of productive and stress-tolerant rice varieties will be developed and the African rice…

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