Forgetting How to Tend the Soil
To survive, the modern civilization must never ever “forget how to tend the soil”.
Modeling ancient history to inform the future
Knowledge about prehistoric farming cultures can be used to provide insights on human societal responses to climate change.
Climate change to steepen food prices
An example of a worsening retroaction between two SDGs : climate action (SDG13) and zero hunger (SDG2).
Maize gene could lure natural enemies of crop pests
Scientists have identified genes in local maize varieties that can fight off stemborers by summoning their natural enemies, raising hopes for pest-resistant varieties for African smallholders.
Flowering plants boost maize yields by half
Climate Smart Agriculture helps to preserve the environment together with food security in Malawi.
Science for the SDGs – Part 6: What about food? 2/2
Genetically Modified Organisms and Information Systems to the rescue of sustainable agriculture.
Science for the SDGs – Part 5: What about food? 1/2
Can we produce enough food, in a sustainable way, at affordable prices? Agriculture is one of the nexus of SDGs.
“Only ecology-based economies can avoid future catastrophe”
In this opinion piece, Fazlun Khalid gives his view about what we should aim after the COVID-19 pandemics. Scientific research is in the programme, and not only for vaccines
Sequestering carbon in soil
Appropriate agricultural practices reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon in the soil.
