Scientific World

Livestock

To address the climate crisis, a paradigm shift in the global livestock sector is not an option – it is a necessity. But how and where should this transformation occur? Researchers have found that it is mainly five…

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Nutrition

Fruit and vegetable post-harvest losses are very high in East Africa. This leads to micronutrient deficiency among the population. In the FruVaSe Project at the University of Göttingen in Germany, non-perishable products…

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Plant breeding

ICRISAT, in collaboration with a team of researchers led by the University of Georgia, USA, has published a pioneering study on the finger millet genome offering new insights for breeders and hope for millions in the…

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Climate change

Global warming and drastic deforestation could dry out the Amazon rainforest faster and enforce the risk of keeping it downright fire-trapped, researchers of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in…

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Forestry

The world’s yearly wood harvests are likely to emit 3.5 to 4.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, more than 10 per cent of recent global annual emissions of carbon dioxide a recent study by the World…

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Plant breeding

The "Healthy Crops" international research consortium is developing disease-resistant rice varieties. In the scientific journal eLife, the authors now report on the discovery of a recent bacterial outbreak in Tanzania –…

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Water

Widespread implementation of experiential food insecurity indicators in the prior two decades has substantially improved our ability to track and develop tailored solutions for addressing malnutrition globally. An…

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Climate change

An international research team has succeeded in proving that whether regions in Africa are covered by forest or savannah depends mostly on climatic factors. The study thus confirms the dominant role of climate in the…

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Biodiversity

Islands of trees in oil palm plantations can significantly increase biodiversity within five years without reducing productivity. This has been shown by an experiment which has been running in Indonesia for over ten…

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One Health

Through a systematised literature review, an international research team has identified a wide variety of pig- and pork-associated zoonotic and foodborne hazards in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA).

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