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EU faces a €70 billion annual bill to adapt to climate change by 2050

Environment
The European Union will need to invest around €70 billion every year until 2050 to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change, according to a new study commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA).

How do forests and trees sustain agriculture?

Agriculture
Joli Rumi Borah and Terry Sunderland from the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, discuss how forests and trees play a crucial role in sustaining agriculture.

Providing Food: The answer lies in the soil

Agriculture
David Green, Executive Director, The U.S. Sustainability Alliance, explains how the soil holds the answer to feeding the world.

Controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt Disease in East Africa

Agriculture
Experts Leena Tripathi, Jaindra Nath Tripathi and Richard Goodman, provide a compelling analysis of controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt Disease in East Africa.

COVID-19: Protecting the invisible enablers of food security

Agriculture
Frances Goodrum, Head of External Affairs, Brooke Action for Working Horses and Donkeys, walks us through why we need to protect the invisible enablers of food security in light of COVID-19.

Scientists say women faced food insecurity during India’s lockdown

Research & Innovation
The study, published in Economia Politica, finds that the Indian COVID lockdown led to women facing greater food insecurity - due to fluctuations in food prices and pre-existing social issues.

Scientists say adapt plant roots to protect food security from climate

Agriculture
Overheating is creating issues for agriculture across the globe - now, scientists think that adapting plant roots to the heat could protect food security.

Scientists say temperatures in South America could rise by 4°C

Agriculture
If greenhouse gas emissions continue as they are, the average temperature in South America could rise by 4°C - bringing with it more floods and wildfires.

Commission allocates €25m in humanitarian funding to fight hunger in Afghanistan

Government
The Commission is allocating €25 million in humanitarian funding from its Solidarity Emergency Aid Reserve to fight hunger in Afghanistan.

Push-pull tech for sustainable agricultural intensification in East Africa

Agriculture
The UPSCALE project aims to achieve food security in sub-Saharan Africa by using nature-based solutions inspired by push-pull technology to close the yield gap in smallholder agriculture.

Conservation and the right to food

Agriculture
Winy Vasquez, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, with Terry Sunderland, shed light on conservation and the right to food.

Integrated Pest Management: Reducing pesticide use in European farms

Agriculture
Coordinators of IPMWORKS, Nicolas Munier-Jolain, and IPM Decisions, Neil Paveley, illustrate how integrated pest management acts as a pathway for European farmers to reduce pesticide inputs and improve production systems.

Sustainable food: A common goal but how to get there?

Agriculture
David Green, Executive Director at U.S. Sustainability Alliance and a commentator and advisor on food and agriculture for GreenOrange, comments on sustainable food - It’s a common goal but how do we get there?

Rainbow rice: A paradigm shift in future foods

Agriculture
It is now the right time to look for new approaches to turn rainbow rice leaves into future foods of well-being, says Professor Dr Apichart Vanavichit, Director, Rice Science Center.

Food & nutrition: Imagining a future-fit world

Agriculture
Jyotsna Puri (Jo) PhD, Director of the Environment, Climate Gender, Youth, Nutrition and Social Inclusion Division at UN International Fund for Agricultural Development, imagines a future-fit world when it comes to food and nutrition.

Oliver R Tambo Africa Research Chair at SACIDS Foundation for One Health

Health & Social Care
Named after a freedom fighter who spoke up for science and tech, a group of African and international research funders under the OR Tambo Africa Research Chairs Initiative announced Prof Gerald Misinzo and his institution Sokoine University of Agriculture as one of the initiative’s first ten individual research chair holders and host institutions.

A biotech shield for cowpea against the major insect pests

Agriculture
Jose M. Barrero, Donald J. MacKenzie, Richard E. Goodman and T.J.V. Higgins provide an in-depth look at what we need to know about a biotech shield for cowpea against the major insect pests.
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