CABI

MARCH 5, 2024

South Sudan’s agricultural sector is vital to its economy and employs most of the population. The FAO estimates that up to 95% of South Sudan relies on agriculture for income. Diverse crops like cassava, maize, groundnut and sorghum characterize farming here.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 17, 2023

What Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Are Available under the Plant Treaty and Where Is This Information? Public–private partnerships and genetically modified crop development for smallholder farmers in Africa. Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 23, 2024

Bottom line: more crops better. Anthropocene Magazine has a handy summary of recent research into crop diversity on the North China Plain. Bottom line: adding more crops to the current dominant rotation of wheat and maize increases yields and profits, sequesters more carbon in the soil and reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Shifting cultivation is a cropping system whereby a piece of farmland under forest is opened up and used for cropping (usually arable crop such as yam, maize,

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Cultivation Maize Farmland Crop 105

ATTRA

MARCH 25, 2024

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics published a study that explores the design of an affordable, farm-level operable kiln for biochar production and examines the properties of the biochar produced by this system. It uses crop residue such as pigeonpea and maize stalk as feedstock.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here, we look at some crops that might fare well as UK temperatures increase, and consider how these might fit into a more sustainable farming system. On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Here, we look at four potential candidates.

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Crop Food Maize Production 52

Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 11, 2023

Plant domestication and agricultural ecologies. Diamonds in the Not-So-Rough: Wild Relative Diversity Hidden in Crop Genomes. Mapping potential conflicts between global agriculture and terrestrial conservation. Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome. Ok, maybe 8.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They know maize is different.” The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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Maize Food Agroecology Seeding 142

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I was there with Lavdosh Ferruni, Executive Director of The Organic Agricultural Association of Albania and an activist and passionate advocate for the conservation and celebration of Albanian food culture, and Dr Robert Damo, an agronomist and botanist who heads up the Faculty of Agriculture at the ‘Fan S. Noli’ university in Korçë.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 114

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 118

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF) is working to break down research silos among governments and across geographies in West and Central Africa. Most agricultural production in West and Central Africa is from smallholder farmers. This is a global village,” Tenkouano tells Food Tank.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 60

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? The closest analogues—wheat in the countries of Europe, rice across Asia—pale beside the cultural and dietary importance of maize in the land where it was first domesticated.

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Maize Science Food Crop 139

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Everything from the number of farms, to the types of crops, to how they get to market, have all become more consolidated in recent decades. Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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