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Study Explores Possible Synergies and Trade-Offs to Tackle Climate Change

How can some of world's biggest problems - climate change, food security and land degradation - be tackled simultaneously?

8 Jul 2020

New Precision Tool can Improve Crop Yield

When it comes to nifty farm gadgets and technology, there are many neat tools. Tractor guidance is definitely one of them, thanks to how it helps farmers better use their resources.

6 Jul 2020

Novel Technology can Detect Adulterated Food

A University of Central Florida researcher is developing new technology to make sure people are getting the food they think they're eating.

2 Jul 2020

Researchers Investigate Alternative Protein Sources in Food Production

Worldwide there is a growing demand for animal products for human nutrition, despite vegan and vegetarian diets becoming more popular in Western countries.

2 Jul 2020

Integrated Pest Management can Support Sustainable Cropping Systems

CABI has partnered with leading researchers and institutions to launch a new portal that facilitates global research collaboration to help fight the devastating crop pest fall armyworm.

2 Jul 2020

Tissue Succulence Engineering Method can Prove Useful for Food and Bioenergy Crops

After several years of experimentation, scientists have engineered thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, to behave like a succulent, improving water-use efficiency, salinity tolerance and reducing the effects of drought.

1 Jul 2020

New Findings on Plant Processes may Lead to Increased Crop Yields

University of East Anglia scientists have helped find a way to control different plant processes - such as when they grow - using nothing but coloured light.

30 Jun 2020

New Sensor Monitors Fruits , Vegetables by Continuously Detecting Ethylene Gas

NIMS and AIST have developed a small sensor capable of continuously monitoring the plant hormone ethylene.

30 Jun 2020

Study Shows Land-Clearing has Degraded Weather in the Brazilian Cerrado

Brazil is one of the top three producers of both soy and corn globally, and its agricultural sector accounts for one-fifth of the country's economy.

30 Jun 2020

Light Environment Changes can Help Boost Crop Yield

The crops we grow in the field often form dense canopies with many overlapping leaves, such that young "sun leaves" at the top of the canopy are exposed to full sunlight with older "shade leaves" at the bottom.

25 Jun 2020