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Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 27, 2023

Diversify markets, production, crops and technology to de-risk agrifood systems. Maize varietal replacement in Eastern and Southern Africa: Bottlenecks, drivers and strategies for improvement. Seed companies need to be more proactive… Why farmers use so many different maize varieties in West Kenya?

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Nibbles: Svalbard Global Seed Vault, CePaCT genebank, CIAT genebank, Australia rice genebank, Bangladesh genebank, Maize mutants garden, Inoculants genebank, Millets community seedbank, Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services, Triadic Comparison of Technology Options, Crop diversity, Intercropping, Agroforestry, Diet diversity, World economy, Sustainable food

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason.

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Kuhn four-rotor rakes go high-tech with GPS section control

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly Kuhn has ramped up the level of technology offered on its high-capacity four-rotor rakes, adding features such as hydraulic drive, hydraulic suspension and GPS section control. The updates apply to two models in the 10231 series – the GA 13231 and GA 15231 – which offer working widths from 8.4m

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Technology Maize

Early pest warnings and IPM advice are improving food security for maize farmers in Ghana

CABI

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Smallholder maize farmers in Ghana have long grappled with the challenges posed by crop pests. And the losses have impacted… The post Early pest warnings and IPM advice are improving food security for maize farmers in Ghana appeared first on PlantwisePlus Blog. Pest warnings are changing the way that smallholders in Ghana farm.

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Maize Food Crop Farming

In Parched Zimbabwe, Small-Scale Farmers Turn to Traditional Crops

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. But small-scale farmers had long abandoned their drought-resistant traditional crops like finger millet, pearl millet, and sorghumopting for maize. We lost our entire maize crop.

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Crop Maize Food Grain

25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Klein focus on four major areas of change: the commodification of food production, new food technologies, new culinary identities, and migration. Today, that number is less than 1 percent.

Food

Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology

Remembering Wally Falcon: A Visionary Leader in Food Security and Agricultural Economics

Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Falcon was a widely recognized and sought-after consultant to governments and food-related international organizations including the Agricultural Development Council, the International Rice Research Institute, and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture biotechnology

Building Resilience Through Localization in West and Central Africa

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition to growing millet, sorghum, maize, and other crops, they produce seeds to use the following year. As “electronic extension agents,” youth are taking new technologies and making sure they are disseminated to those who could benefit. “At the local level, one should be able to produce as much as what is needed.”

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Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For more than 10 years, Kayan has been applying human urine to his hayfields through a partnership with the Brattleboro-based Rich Earth Institute , a non-profit engaging in research, education and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource.

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Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution

From Faltering to Flourishing: Local Food Supply Chains are Making a Comeback

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

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. Of the more than 200,000 edible plant species , people today rely on just 15 for almost all of their regular food intake.

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Supply Chain Food Distribution Marketing

The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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Maize Science Food Crop

124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization’s goal is to increase farming productivity and economic growth by finding technologies and innovations suited to the climate and agricultural conditions of arid and semi-arid regions. CGIAR , International As the largest global agricultural innovation network, CGIAR is working to the transform food, land, and water systems.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding

A deadly passage

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Border Patrol agents are supported by an arsenal of technology, including towers and aerostatic balloons equipped with infrared and high-resolution surveillance cameras, facial-recognition devices, and ground sensors that can detect foot traffic. That fee included passage beyond the one-hundred-mile zone that stretches into the U.S.

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