Tag: food security

A new review synthesizes evidence that fungi living inside salt-tolerant halophyte plants can boost crop yields, confer salinity and drought ...

A comparative analysis of white yam and Irish potato grown in Lafia, Nigeria, finds the potato richer in protein and ...

Thai researchers found that salt-tolerant endophytic bacteria, especially the SHPP24 and SKPK29 isolates, significantly improved rice physiology, growth, and grain ...

A community-driven Q-methodology study in four rural Alaska Native communities identifies food security, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural transmission to youth ...

A Brazilian field study shows that foliar sodium selenate reliably enriches sorghum grain with selenium, while novel selenium compounds and ...

A new review argues that induced mutagenesis, integrated with genomics and high-throughput phenotyping, could overcome the narrow genetic base of ...

A new CMIP6-based global assessment projects that soil moisture droughts will become longer and more severe by 2050, pushing agricultural ...

A refined global crop model reveals that droughts, heatwaves and their compound events cut wheat yields far more than standard ...

A new national framework coupling cropland health, productivity, and connectivity identifies 14.67 percent of China's farmland for managed fallow, concentrating ...

A sweeping review in iScience reveals that irrigation regimes and rhizosphere microbes form a bidirectional feedback loop that can boost ...

A new iScience analysis of fifteen climate response options shows that governance coherence, justice safeguards, and indigenous knowledge determine whether ...

A sweeping review finds that intercropping, agroforestry, and crop rotation can rebuild degraded soils, cut pest pressure by up to ...

A controlled field study in Ghana shows that traditional rice landraces Ex-Baika and Ex-Viono accumulate significantly more iron, zinc, calcium, ...

A nationally representative analysis of Tanzanian census data finds that mineral fertilizer users harvest nearly 50 percent more sorghum than ...

A new commentary in Discover Plants argues that genomics, CRISPR genome editing, and tissue culture must be integrated with conventional ...

A new Nature Reviews Bioengineering review charts how structural biology, gene transfer and AI-assisted protein design are turning plant immune ...

A new review in Stress Biology details how quinoa's extraordinary salt, drought, and cold tolerance, now backed by reference genomes, ...

ESA's FLEX satellite, launching on 15 September 2026 with key support from Forschungszentrum Jülich, will for the first time map ...

Researchers have built a four-pillar composite index that tracks Jordan's agricultural food-security risk from 2007 to 2024, identifying 2008 and ...

In recent years, the adaptation and improvement of staple crops have been at the forefront of agricultural research. Among them, ...