Resilience pays off unevenly for food security in Senegal, study finds
A study of 3,010 Senegalese households finds that resilience capacity improves food consumption and dietary diversity, with effects that vary ...
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Aquaponics tops sustainability but money and gender shape fish farming choices in Uganda
A survey of 169 Ugandan fish farmers finds aquaponics is the most sustainable system yet the least adopted, with gender, ...
Halving Hazardous Pesticides in Europe Would Reshape Farms, Trade and Land Use
A new CGE modelling study finds that a 50 percent cut in hazardous pesticide use would cost the EU agricultural ...
Heat and illness compound to squeeze rural Ugandan household consumption
A new study of 621 rural Ugandan households finds that temperature rises above the long-term average are associated with 15 ...
Ethiopia’s Cluster Farming Reviewed: Five Forces Shaping Smallholder Transformation
A systematic review of 23 empirical studies finds that cluster-based farming in Ethiopia offers social, economic, ecological, institutional and political ...
Biochar Boosts Rice Yields and Microbial Life, Review Finds, With Caveats
A new review finds biochar can raise rice yields by 8 to 24 percent and cut greenhouse gas emissions, while ...
New FAVI Index Ranks Food Availability Vulnerability Across Five ASEAN Countries
A newly developed Food Availability Vulnerability Index scores Singapore as the most vulnerable and Thailand as the least vulnerable of ...
Precision Fermentation Moves From Fuel and Feed to the Future of Food
University of Illinois researchers say precision fermentation, long used for fuel and animal feed, could help address global food insecurity ...
Lightweight hybrid transformer model detects plant diseases with over 99% accuracy
A lightweight hybrid transformer model combining wavelet transforms with MobileViT achieved over 99% accuracy in classifying plant diseases across four ...
Women Do the Work but Men Reap the Rewards in Agroforestry, Review Finds
A systematic review of 49 studies finds that women's labour and knowledge sustain agroforestry systems worldwide, yet control over land, ...
AI-Designed Gene Editor Helps Rice Resist Bacterial Blight
University of Missouri researchers used the AI-designed, open-source gene editor OpenCRISPR-1 to create rice plants that resist bacterial blight, with ...
Superior haplotypes offer a new framework for climate-resilient crop breeding
A new review proposes a standardized superior haplotype framework, validated across cereals, oilseeds and legumes, to capture genetic effects that ...
New index reveals where industrial fleets put small-scale fisheries most at risk
A new 126-country index shows vulnerability to conflict between small-scale and industrial fisheries is highest where nutritional reliance on small-scale ...
Scoping Review Maps Six Domains of Economic Security for Health Research
A scoping review of 53 studies published between 2015 and 2025 proposes a six-domain framework covering income, healthcare, employment, housing, ...
New 30-Meter Maps Reveal China’s Maize Production Field by Field
Researchers built a 30-meter-resolution maize production map of China for 2019 and 2020 by downscaling official provincial statistics with satellite-derived ...
Tiny AI Model Reads Diseased Crop Leaves With Big-Model Accuracy and Explains Itself
A 79,717-parameter attention-fused neural network called LeafXNet matches or beats far larger deep learning models at detecting watermelon, grape, and ...
Smarter Irrigation Could Cut China’s Crop Water Use by a Quarter While Boosting Yields
A Nature Food study combining county records, farmer surveys and thousands of field experiments finds that crop- and region-specific irrigation ...
Wheat in Crisis: Variability of Wheat Area in Lebanon 2017–2025
A national satellite study estimated that Lebanon’s wheat area ranged from 27,212 to 69,194 hectares across 2017–2025, with sharp contractions ...
Toward a Global Digital Commons for Maize Breeding
A proposed digital commons would combine crop modeling, maize genetics and federated learning to support climate-resilient breeding while allowing research ...
Nova food framework may underserve populations with greatest need
A peer-reviewed Perspective argues that Nova’s culturally specific and operationally imprecise criteria may limit its suitability for populations most affected ...
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