What if you received a new mattress in exchange for planting diverse crops? It may sound unusual, but tangible non-monetary incentives—anything from fertilizer to furniture—may hold significant potential in encouraging ...
Environment
Nov 16, 2020
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New research shows how a combination of imagery from mobile phones, drones and satellites can be used to clamp down on banana threats. The images of varying resolutions are fed into a platform "trained" through machine learning ...
Ecology
Oct 22, 2020
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Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have developed an important component of a new system that corn growers can use to adjust nitrogen fertilizer applications based on site-specific measurements of ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2020
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The growing global demand for palm oil has led to a rapid spread of oil palm monoculture plantations in South East Asia. This is often associated with the loss of natural habitat and biodiversity. Oil palm monocultures are ...
Environment
Oct 14, 2020
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Chocolate is almost universally adored. But few know the complicated process of how cacao beans become chocolate. Did you know cacao tree farming is done mostly by small-scale low-income farmers in Latin America, particularly ...
Environment
Oct 6, 2020
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It's been 7,000 years since indigenous rural communities of the Andes first grew quinoa. Among these deserted highlands, recognized by the United Nations as "globally important ingenious agricultural heritage systems" (GIAHS), ...
Environment
Sep 28, 2020
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Selective breeding of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) and cattle with the help of genomics could help increase livestock productivity, thereby improving food security, nutrition and incomes for millions of smallholder farmers ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2020
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In a review paper published in Frontiers in Plant Science, scientists urge the importance of combining the knowledge harbored by farmers of diverse crop varieties—which is often overlooked by scientists—with high-tech ...
Ecology
Sep 21, 2020
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British sheep farmers could profit from allowing their land to naturally regenerate into forest, according to new research from the University of Sheffield.
Environment
Sep 2, 2020
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New research from Ghana shows less popular methods of biochar application are more effective in promoting cowpea growth and yield. The article, "Method of biochar application affects growth, yield and nutrient uptake of cowpea" ...
Environment
Aug 24, 2020
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