The Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr. Simeon Ehui, has called for greater youth ...

Changing Weather Patterns Create New Challenges Climate change and variability - marked by rising temperatures, altered precipitation, and increased extreme weather - have significant impacts on ...

Maize is Africa’s most widely grown crop, but its vulnerability to climate change is derailing the continent’s efforts to end hunger. Now, startups and NGOs are looking for new ways to future-proof ...

As giant farms grow just one kind — a clone — a deadly and persistent fungus thrives. Botanical gardens like Norfolk’s want their conservatories to preserve and foster threatened and ...

Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe is three times more harmful to biodiversity than previously assumed. It has long been known that ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

Photographic examples of a plant disease dataset. (a) Balck rot; (b) Northern leaf blight; (c) Isariopsis leaf spot; (d) Brown spot. Researchers have made significant progress in the field of ...

Urbanization is a primary threat to biodiversity. However, scientists know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical regions of the Global South. An ...

Hainan, China's only tropical island province, is boosting tropical agriculture as a pillar industry of its supply-side reform agenda during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period, according to ...

Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach, and to be effective measures must address underlying and indirect roles of agriculture, says study. A new study published today in leading ...

As early as 7,000 years ago, prehistoric societies in the tropical forests of Central and South America changed over from foraging to food production by cultivating manioc and other plants with edible ...