Scientific World

Biodiversity

Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline century

Global biodiversity declined between two and eleven per cent during the 20th century due to land-use change alone, according to a large multi-model study published in Science. Projections show that climate change could…

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Cocoa production

World’s chocolate supply threatened by devastating virus

A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardising the global supply of the world’s most popular treat.

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Plant breeding

Arabica coffee – a new database to better identify more climate-resilient plants

With climate change threatening coffee cultivation, an international research team under the lead of Nestlé plant scientists are exploring how advanced data science and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to help…

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Biodiversity

Tropical forests can't recover naturally without fruit-eating birds

Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds limiting their…

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Agriculture

Diversified farming benefits people and the environment

Mixing livestock and crops, integrating flower strips and trees, water and soil conservation and much more – a new global study has examined the effects of diversified agriculture. The conclusion is abundantly clear –…

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Environment

All countries’ agri-environmental policies at a glance

There can be no analysis without data. In this spirit, researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany and the Swiss Federal Institution of Technology (ETH) Zurich have published a database containing over 6,000…

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Plant protection

Tackling pest-induced post-harvest loss under climate change

Insects are one of the most important factors in post-harvest losses world-wide. In the face of climate change, it is necessary to monitor the invasion pathways of these pests and adapt control strategies to minimise…

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Research

Improving innovation adoption among African smallholder farmers

The INTERFACES project backs four regional ventures run by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and aimed at promoting sustainable land management in sub-Saharan Africa. Its mission focuses on developing…

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Forestry

Amazon rainforest at the threshold – loss of forest worsening climate change

The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic…

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Deforestation

Mapping the diversity of land uses following deforestation across Africa

With satellite data and machine learning methods, scientists have identified and located 15 forms of land use – from the cultivation of various useful plants such as coffee, cocoa and India rubber through pastureland to…

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