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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
Balancing the planet’s resource base with the growing nutritional demands of an expanding human population in a just, equitable and inclusive way, while simultaneously reducing GHG emissions from the world’s food system,…
Climate change and increases in drought and rainstorms pose serious challenges to water management, not only in terms of the quantity of water, but also its quality. However, according to the most recent report by the…
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