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September 12, 2022
Africa: Fall Armyworm Campaign Boosts Maize Yield By a Third
Educating farmers about the destructive pest fall armyworm using a combination of digital media and face-to-face events can significantly boost maize yields, a study has found. Read more »
August 23, 2022
South Africa: Gene Discovery Could Fight Cassava Disease, Increase Food Security
The discovery of a gene resistant to the virus that causes the devastating cassava mosaic disease could aid the development of disease-resistant cassava varieties and boost food… Read more »
August 12, 2022
Africa: Food Fears Grow As African Floods Fail to Subside #AfricaClimateCrisis
Africa could face increased food insecurity and an unprecedented rural-urban migration crisis if the climate change induced flooding persists, environmentalists say. Read more »
July 14, 2022
Africa: Formula Milk Marketing Disrupts Breastfeeding Goals
Formula milk companies continue to defy international regulations and target health centres to market their products, a WHO study on formula marketing and its impact on… Read more »
July 06, 2022
Africa: Pharma Companies to Share Data On Antimicrobial Resistance
Pharmaceutical companies have pledged to share surveillance data on new antimicrobial medicines such as antibiotics in a new register launched to combat antimicrobial resistance… Read more »
June 29, 2022
Uganda: Coconut Water Aids Artificial Insemination of Pigs
Using nutrient-rich coconut water to artificially inseminate female pigs could improve breeding and meat quality, a project carried out in Uganda has found. Read more »
June 02, 2022
Africa: AI Drives Quest for New Antivirals to Fight Outbreaks
Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international… Read more »
May 06, 2022
Africa: Forecasting Tool Finds Best Time to Fight Fall Armyworm
A novel modelling system relying on simple inputs could help smallholder farmers accurately predict the best time for controlling fall armyworm larval populations to prevent crop… Read more »
April 08, 2022
Africa: Climate-Smart Policies Could See Crop Yields Soar
Implementing climate-smart policies such as irrigation and growing recommended crops could increase crop production by 50 to 700 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa, a modelling tool… Read more »
March 30, 2022
Africa: Africa's Rice-Farming Villages More Prone to Malaria #AfricaClimateCrisis
Malaria has become more common in African villages with irrigated rice fields in the last 20 years, highlighting the need for improved cultivation methods to keep mosquito numbers… Read more »
June 13, 2011
Africa: Private Investment in Trees Could Replenish Land
Africa's severe land degradation could be reversed by private sector investment in tree-based restoration technologies, a meeting heard. Read more »
May 16, 2011
Africa: Region 'Must Embrace Geospatial Information'
African governments could become more sensitive to what their people really need by harnessing the wealth of available geospatial information, a meeting of scientists and… Read more »
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