COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world
For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023.
For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023.
Ecology
Dec 4, 2023
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A drone buzzed back and forth above rows of verdant orange trees planted near Nabeul, eastern Tunisia.
Agriculture
Dec 3, 2023
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For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios of superintelligent machines, AI is a useful tool in many fields. In fact, it has enormous ...
Agriculture
Nov 30, 2023
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Leaves rustled as Mike Cirone reached into a tree and gently picked an apple. The orchard was filled with a profusion of ripe fruit in shades from golden-green to pinkish red.
Agriculture
Nov 30, 2023
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Planting flowers beside food crops on farms in India attracts bees, boosts pollination and improves crop yield and quality, researchers have found.
Ecology
Nov 28, 2023
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Over 4 million hectares of tree cover—an area equivalent to the size of Switzerland—may have been cleared to make space for rubber plantations since the 1990s. Out of all the rubber planted, 1 million hectares may have ...
Ecology
Nov 23, 2023
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The production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer is currently at a record ...
Agriculture
Nov 17, 2023
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Bioscientist Anne Villacastin is using genetics to supercharge the growing power of sorghum, a cereal plant that humans have been cultivating for millennia. By adding genes from wheat, Villacastin and her colleagues at the ...
Biotechnology
Nov 16, 2023
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In 2018, a group of students from the Universities of Innsbruck, Austria, and Hamburg, Germany, were on a research excursion close to the village of Llupa in the Rio Santa valley in the Peruvian Andes. While they were busy ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2023
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Investments are not just about money, and they don't just impact the agricultural economy but also the dynamics of the agricultural sector itself. In Denmark, external investments have played an increasingly influential role ...
Agriculture
Nov 15, 2023
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