Tag: Agriculture

  • 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate

    7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate

    COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world Managing methane from belching cattle is a top innovation priority. Lance Cheung/USDA Paul Winters, University of Notre Dame For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United Nations climate conference in 2023. More…

  • Heifer to boost agriculture in Nigeria with $3.5m funding

      Heifer International, an organization devoted to funding international developments. This week, the organization announced it will be working in Nigeria, and other countries to boost their agricultural infrastructure development. The organization has already disbursed $1 million for financing in the sector. The additional money will be used to finance another 75 tractors across Nigeria.…

  • Africa’s low agricultural yield worries minister

    Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has expressed concern over the low content of science and technology in agricultural practice in Africa, saying this remains responsible for its low productivity, yield and inability to compete globally. In his speech at a national stakeholders’ sensitisation and awareness workshop on animal biotechnology application and…

  • Technologies: Transforming maize breeding and production in Africa

    Scientists part of the Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) and the Maize Lethal Necrosis Gene Editing projects are leveraging innovative technologies to transform seed production systems and speed up the delivery of disease resistance in elite new hybrids. This research is helping smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to access high-quality seed of new hybrids…

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