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The Future of Plant Science – a Technology Perspective
Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century, according to Carnegie’s David Ehrhardt and Wolf Frommer. In a Perspective published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers argue that the development of...
Weather Extremes Threaten Food Security in Lesotho
Lesotho is facing a food security crisis as changing weather patterns and poverty leave some smallholder farmers with no option but to abandon farming and sell their land.
Stunted Children Leads to Stunted Lives in Madagascar
At the age of four, Henintsoa Rakotoarimanana weighs just 10kg and, at a height of 84cm, is not much larger than a baby. Fed on rice and cassava since he was born, he is now receiving treatment for malnutrition at Maharodaza Nutrition Centre in Manjakandriana,...
South Africa And Cuba Sign Economic Assistance Package Agreement
South Africa and Cuba have signed a R350-million Economic Assistance Package Agreement geared towards helping that country improve its food security,Geoengineering And Global Food Supply
Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing the Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic effects, including crop...
United States to Spend Over $75m for Liberian Private Sector
United States Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, renewed the US’s pledge to held Liberia in various sector, pointing out that the US will spend in 2012 over $75 million to assist in the rebuilding of Liberia’s private sector as "there’s...
Nepal’s Monsanto Debate Spotlights Seed Sovereignty
An effort by US donors and multinational agribusiness Monsanto to partner with Nepal to boost local maize production with imported hybrid seeds has met civil society opposition calling – instead – for home-grown solutions.
Donor Aid Begins to Flow Into Myanmar
As the government of Myanmar continues to pledge political reform, donors are reassessing their giving in a country that has historically received among the lowest levels of per capita development aid of any developing country.
