Dairy cows are sensitive to heat, so farmers cool them down with sprinklers and fans. Researchers are designing better, more efficient systems to keep cows comfortable through hot California summers.
More milk from these Wisconsin dairy cows may find its way to Canada under the new trade deal.
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Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.
Clinical trials using immune cells engineered through synthetic biology have been shown to push some patients into remission from blood cancer.
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Right now, you’re living in a kind of industrial revolution – where biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form synthetic biology.
A diversity of seeds on sale in Nanyuki market, Kenya.
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Leigh Ann Winowiecki, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) e Tor-Gunnar Vågen, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
A Land Degradation Surveillance framework could solve this problem by systematically measuring and tracking indicators of land health in Africa.
Terraced rice fields in northwest Vietnam.
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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University