Harnessing plant hormones for food security in Africa Striga hermonthica, also known as purple witchweed, is an invasive parasitic plant that threatens food production in sub-Saharan Africa.... Read more
An international team, including researchers from the University of Göttingen, argues in a perspective article recently published in “Science” that new plant breeding technologies can contri... Read more
Wheat provides about a fifth of humanity’s food The re-emergence of a rust disease that can kill wheat is threatening food security. A breakthrough has been announced in the prestigious jour... Read more
A new study from a UVA environmental scientist and colleagues shows about a third of the world’s malnourished population could be fed by using resources now used for biofuel production. As s... Read more
Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second... Read more
Article in journal Science outlines threats to soil productivity A group of leading soil scientists, including the University of Delaware’s Donald L. Sparks, has summarized the precarious st... Read more
If it were the end of the world as we know it, we’d be fine, according to Michigan Technological University professor Joshua Pearce. “People have been doing catastrophic risk research for a... Read more
In Tanzania more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns are forcing subsistence farmers to adapt Farmers need only survey their parched fields during the ever-intensifying dry seas... Read more
A major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham, which enables all of the world’s crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentall... Read more
Significant stresses in these areas could jeopardize food security New research on the global maize (corn) trade suggests that any disruptions to U.S. exports could pose food security risks... Read more