Targeted Maps Reveal How Africa Can Shield Its Maize From a Billion-Dollar Parasitic Weed
A new spatial modeling study estimates that parasitic Striga weeds cost African maize farmers about US$1.04 billion annually and shows ...
Tag: Food security
Long-Memory Models Beat Neural Networks in Forecasting Somalia’s Pastoral Red Meat Decline
A 64-year analysis of Somalia's pastoral red meat output shows that a long-memory ARFIMA model outperforms neural networks and classical ...
Fatal Clashes Between Farmers and Hippos Expose a Conservation Governance Crisis in DR Congo
A qualitative study of 87 participants in South Kivu, DR Congo, shows that human-hippopotamus conflict in the Ruzizi plain is ...
Early-Maturing Sorghum Delivers Big Yield Gains in Drought-Hit Ethiopia
Field trials across four drought-prone Ethiopian districts showed that improved early-maturing sorghum varieties Girana-1 and Melkam outyielded local landraces by ...
Forgotten Ethiopian Root Crop Holds Clues to Food Security, New Study Finds
A new ethnobotanical study documents how the Gamo people of southern Ethiopia transform the toxic corm of Arisaema schimperianum into ...
Knowledge Gaps and Distance Keep Ethiopian Dryland Farmers From Fertilizer
A study of 304 Ethiopian smallholder households finds that knowledge, extension access, and market distance separately govern whether farmers adopt ...
AI Is Rewiring Microbes to Feed the World — and Hitting Hard Limits
The global food system is under strain from two directions at once. Climate-driven instability — prolonged droughts, intense floods, unpredictable ...
Seaweed-Grown Zinc Nanoparticles Shield Rice Seedlings From Salt Stress
Researchers in India found that zinc oxide nanoparticles synthesized with seaweed extract outperformed commercial particles at lower doses, protecting salt-stressed ...
Improved Mena tef variety shows promise for Ethiopian farmers in field demonstrations
A participatory demonstration study in eastern Amhara, Ethiopia, tested the improved Mena tef variety against local varieties across 18 farmers' ...
Plant immune switches offer new blueprint for engineered disease resistance
A sweeping review maps the transcriptional, post-transcriptional, translational and post-translational switches that could let scientists program broad-spectrum disease resistance into ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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