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Agrihunt is a global initiative to enhance sustainable agriculture development and food security by improving the use of information, communication and associated technologies in the sector. The aim is to enable members to exchange opinions, experiences, good practices and resources related to e-agriculture and to ensure that the knowledge related is effectively shared and used.

First Plants Caused Ice Ages

Written by ScienceDaily
Tweet New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. Led by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, the study is published in Nature Geoscience. The team set out to identify the effects that the first land plants had on the climate during the Ordovician Period, which ended 444 million years ago. During this period...
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Grey Leaf Spot Of Maize

Written by Dr Julian Ward
Tweet Introduction Grey leaf spot (GLS) of maize is caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis. The disease is now recognised as one of the most significant yield-limiting diseases of maize worldwide and certainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (see Table 1). Not only is it a threat to maize...
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Sunshade Geoengineering More Likely to Improve Global Food Security, Research Suggests

Written by ScienceDaily
Tweet Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic effects, including crop failures in the heat-stressed tropics. This...
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Reducing Food-borne Illness: Gut Health

Written by thepoultrysite.com
Tweet Genes and genetic pathways involved in the intestinal health of chickens and pigs are described and genome-wide prediction tools for intestinal health are defined in the final scientific report from the EU group, Sustainable Animal Breeding (SABRE) subtitled 'Cutting Edge Genomics for Sustainable...
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