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Plácido Plaza elected CIHEAM Secretary General
On 22 February 2019, at the 42nd Governing Board meeting of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) held in Paris, Plácido Plaza was elected unanimously as new Secretary General of the CIHEAM. The Spanish authorities’ candidate will take up office on 1st March 2019, for a first term of four years, after completing an interim period. With his ...
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Horn of Africa `should grow more climate-hardy cassava`
Farmers in the Horn of Africa should focus on growing more improved cassava varieties, which are high-yielding and resilient to drought, according to researchers. The improved varieties developed by the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and tested in Ethiopia, may help tackle famine in the Horn of Africa, an area that was severely hit by drought and hunger in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Plan to boost African rice R&D unveiled
A research strategy to help boost rice production in Africa has been formally unveiled by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), a pan-African agricultural research organisation. The ten-year plan, launched this month (1 February) aims to help the continent become nearly 90 per cent self-sufficient in rice production by 2020, with at least ten countries expected to full meet their own needs. This ...
By SciDev.Net
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Follow up from Joanna Ory’s presentation at the 2016 SAEA Conference
During the 2016 Sustainable Agriculture Education Association Conference, I presented preliminary findings from the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) report, 2016 National Organic Research Agenda (available on our website at ofrf.org). As a researcher at OFRF and an educator at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I was thrilled to share our findings about the research organic ...
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Unterland Crystal and Recycling
Beside several other Unterland branded silage wrap qualities, Coveris – Unterland Films offers a quite revolutionary product; the complete transparent Unterland Crystal. The Unterland Crystal quality can be used on all wrapper types without any adjustments and protects the bales in the same way as coloured film during a guaranteed one-year outdoor storage period. Beside benefits such as ...
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New $13.8 million project aims to boost banana production in Uganda and Tanzania
Millions of smallholder banana farmers in Tanzania and Uganda are set to benefit from a new $13.8 million project to develop and distribute higher-yielding, disease-resistant hybrid banana varieties. The effort is being funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Rony Swennen, a professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) and ...
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Decision support-based approach for sustainable water reuse application in agricultural production - DSWAP
Launched in July 2019, the main goal of DSWAP is to develop modular cost- and energy-efficient wastewater treatment systems specifically designed for wastewater reuse in the context of crops irrigation that safeguard public health, environmental and soil quality and long-term agronomic sustainability. This goal encompasses five specific objectives: Optimization and evaluation of ...
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Google Earth enables remote tracking of fish catches
Persian Gulf governments could use Google’s free global satellite imaging program to better monitor and control fishing in their waters, say experts. Their comments follow a study that used Google Earth to uncover huge discrepancies between reported and observed fish catches in the region. The study, which tracked fishing from space, found that actual catches taken from Persian Gulf ...
By SciDev.Net
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UF researchers develop effective, inexpensive citrus greening detector
While a commercially available cure for crop-killing citrus greening remains elusive, University of Florida researchers have developed a tool to help growers combat the insidious disease: an efficient, inexpensive and easy-to-use sensor that can quickly detect whether a tree has been infected. That early warning could give growers enough lead time to destroy plagued trees and save the rest. ...
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Global Soybean Stakeholders Monetize Biotech-Approval Delays
A new white paper shows that a three-year postponement in global approval of biotech-enhanced soybean traits any time in the next 10 years would cost farmers and consumers a total of nearly $19 billion, compared with typical approval timelines. This new research was released during a recent International Soybean Growers Alliance (ISGA) mission. Farmer-leaders from the United States, Argentina, ...
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Arcadia Biosciences and African Agricultural Technology Foundation collaborate on test planting of nitrogen use efficient rice
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) today announced the planting of the first field trial of Nitrogen Use Efficient (NUE) rice in Africa. The NUE rice field trial is the result of more than five years of collaboration ...
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New book explores history, future of international agriculture
For more than 100 years, scientists have made the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) a force for international change to improve agriculture. A new book, The International Dimension of the American Society of Agronomy: Past and Future, provides both a historical overview and a glimpse of the future of the world of agronomy. The contributions of science to agriculture over the last century are ...
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All About Innovation: Brown University Trial Shows Potential of Plasma-Treated Water to Aid Plant Growth
That’s the year when the world population reaches the count of 9 billion, a sobering contrast to 2.5 billion inhabitants in 1950, and 7.5 billion today. It’s also the year when global food production, according to the World Bank, must rise by 50% to feed this unprecedented mass of humanity. Only a dramatic uptick in innovative technological activity throughout the agricultural ...
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European and Mediterranean experts from over 12 countries meet at IAMZ for advanced course on mycotoxins in cereals for food and feed
IAMZ-CIHEAM organised an advanced course on prevention and control strategies to minimize contamination from mycotoxins in cereal food and feed chains from 22-26 January 2018 Mycotoxins are major contaminants that can affect both cereals and their by-products and, for this reason the EU has strict legislative limits in place to minimize consumer exposure to these mycotoxins in food. The term ...
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Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies Installs 3 root zone temperature optimization systems at the Israeli National Agricultural Organization – Volcani and a system to at South Africa`s Cannabis training Academy
Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies Ltd (ASX:ROO) has secured a sales contract for 3 systems of its proprietary Root Zone Temperature Optimization (RZTO) technology, ordered by the prestigious Israeli National Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) – the Volcani. The company’s technology will be deployed to heat and cool plants' pots and check the influence of 3 ranges of ...
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Marrone Bio Innovations Sponsors Biopesticide Roundtable Hosted by Association of Applied IPM Ecologists
As part of an ongoing educational outreach effort, Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) today sponsored a Biopesticide Roundtable at the University of California, Davis, examining the importance of biopesticides as effective tools in integrated pest management (IPM) programs. The interactive roundtable, hosted by the Association of Applied IPM Ecologists, featured university and industry experts who ...
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Conservation Tillage Conference March 2-3 Offers Tips for Farmers in Tight Economy
High input costs coupled with low grain prices anticipated in 2016 means that growers have to make smarter, calculated choices to grow profitable crops this year. Also important is the need to build and maintain healthy soils to help ensure good water quality, said Randall Reeder, a retired Ohio State University Extension agricultural engineer. Reeder is an organizer of the annual Conservation ...
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Water reform urgently needed in Asia to feed extra 1.5bn people by 2050, says new report
A comprehensive new study of irrigation in Asia warns that, without major reforms and innovations in the way water is used for agriculture, many developing nations face the politically risky prospect of having to import more than a quarter of the rice, wheat and maize they will need by 2050. This warning, along with related forecasts and possible solutions, appear in a report entitled, ...
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