A systematic analysis of 40 years of studies on public crop breeding programs found that cereal grains receive significantly more research attention than other crops important for food security, such as fruits and vegetables; ...
Other
Feb 22, 2024
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Despite the possibility of climate-smart agriculture improving food security, most CSA practices and technologies are not widely adopted in South Asia.
Agriculture
Feb 21, 2024
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Potassium deficiency in agricultural soils is a largely unrecognized but potentially significant threat to global food security if left unaddressed, finds new research involving researchers at UCL, University of Edinburgh ...
Ecology
Feb 19, 2024
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Barriers created by "fortress conservation"—as in the near-total sectioning off of land for conservation without human interference—are threatening important dietary diversity for the up to 1.5 billion people around the ...
Ecology
Feb 14, 2024
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The proliferation of technology for everyday living can be seen through ChatGPT writing term papers or robots serving meals at a restaurant.
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2024
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1
Since the Green Revolution in the 1960s, intensive agricultural production practices have laid the foundation for food security. However, these measures are also accompanied by significant resource input and environmental ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2024
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Researchers report that replacing 50% of animal products with alternative proteins by 2050 could free up enough agricultural land to generate renewable energy equivalent in volume to today's coal-generated power while simultaneously ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2024
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Information security has become particularly crucial under the background of the big data era. Optical secret-sharing schemes encrypt information and physically divide it into different shares. Information can only be decrypted ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 6, 2024
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2
Rice production in Africa is in urgent need of intensification to meet future demand. This is to prevent the continent from becoming largely dependent on the import of rice or significant portions of farmlands being used ...
Agriculture
Feb 5, 2024
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1
A new study led by the University of Stirling has revealed for the first time substantial benefits from adopting smallholder aquaculture for Zambian farmers. The research provides compelling evidence of how fish farming diversifies ...
Agriculture
Feb 1, 2024
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