The starting point of the project ‘PRIFOR’ is the lack of voluntary private forest owners’ associations in the six Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia…
Having common standards and harmonised protection categories allows for a more reliable overview of the protection status within European forests. Therefore,…
By using DNA sequencing to make pathogen-specific probes, researchers are able to detect and count the deadly bacteria in soil and on plant surfaces and advise…
Rice Science, formerly Chinese Rice Research Newsletter, is an international quarterly journal. The primary purpose of this journal is to introduce the…
Tropical deforestation, which releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year, is a major contributor to global climate…
Characterised by the sudden mass exodus of bees from their hives, CCD was first reported in America in November 2006, and has rapidly spread to over 20…
The scenario humans need to worry about would occur if the infection rate in pigs drops. At low infection rates, there is actually a higher chance pigs will…
A major international initiative is being launched to try to boost the income of the world’s millions of poor rice farmers and at the same time provide…
With this study, experts of the lab observe these changes first hand thanks to a microchip. ‘We implant it in the dorsal muscle of the specimens we are…
The Geospatial Research Centre has been officially launched at its base in Christchurch, New Zealand, this month. The Centre is a joint venture between the…
Scientists from the Nairobi-headquartered icipe, African Insect Science for Food and Health, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the…
“Agriculture is central to human survival and is probably the human enterprise most vulnerable to changes in climate,” said lead author Rosamond Naylor,…
The EPSRC-funded £6.4 million continuation will build on the findings of the first four years of the project and extend the work into promising new areas of…
Now, thanks to the EU-funded NASOOP (Integrated Approach to Sustainable Olive Oil and Table Olive Production) project, help is at hand. For the past three…
A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia has examined the slash-and-burn farming method traditionally used by the Iban, a widespread indigenous…
North Carolina State researchers recently discovered a test that quickly predicts nitrogen levels in the humid soil conditions of the southeastern United…
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