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How do foods break into new niches and global markets? US cranberry growers, saddled with large surpluses and working to boost demand for their product, could take a lesson from soybeans.
African countries, like Nigeria and Ethiopia, increased their food production using a system-wide approach, and not the traditional reliance on isolated projects.
Crop losses in African countries due to insect pests are estimated at 49%. However, with some species losses can climb up to 100%.
We will one day grow food in conditions as extreme as Mars. Developing the controlled environments required will help not only space explorers but also support our own survival here on Earth.
Demonstration farms are a key way in which new knowledge can be transferred to farmers around the world.
Diversity, resilience, resistance to disease: seeds must be preserved to ensure we can feed our world in the future.
Africa’s orphan crops are under-researched and underutilised. They can be a vital tool in combating food and nutrition insecurity on the continent.
Many African countries are still searching for inclusive commercial farming models that can bring in private investment without dispossessing local people.
New study finds little evidence that farmers consciously tried to turn wild plants into more useful crops.
Crop probiotics are natural, eco-friendly and could provide huge benefits for Australian farmers. But our loose regulations means genuine products are competing with snake oil.
Microbial-based solutions for agriculture are among some of the new innovations having an impact on the sector in the developed world.
New research pinpoints the genes that could counteract decades of bland breeding.
Australia’s wheat harvest has stalled over the past 26 years, and worsening weather is to blame.
Every single Cavendish banana plant worldwide is genetically identical. This vast monoculture sets them up for disastrous disease outbreaks. But researchers have ideas on how to protect the crop.
Charcoal rot is associated with yield losses in crucial crops like maize, soybean and sorghum.
Invasive species and diseases pose a major threat to agriculture – particularly in the countries that can least afford it.
Eating meat means greenhouse emissions. But the emissions from growing crops may have been underestimated, meaning that a climate-friendly diet isn’t as straightforward as simply going vegetarian.
Modern agriculture is synonymous with monoculture. That lack of diversity is bad news for plants’ natural immune defenses. Researchers are figuring out how to help plants fend off microbes – without pesticides.
Farms on Sydney’s fringes supply 20% of the city’s food. That could drop by more than half if urban sprawl isn’t kept in check.
Top contributors
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CEO, Crops for the Future Research Centre and Professor of Global Food Security, University of Nottingham
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Ph.D. Student in the School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech
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Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Research scientist at Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, food chemistry, University of Pretoria
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CEO, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
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Research Scientist Invasive Species, CSIRO
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney
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Senior Research fellow, Anglia Ruskin University
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Director, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
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Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
