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AfricanBusiness https://african.business/2022/03/agribusiness-manufacturing/how-global-collaboration-can-prevent-plant-disease-pandemics-in-africa/
Looking out across a crop nursery filled with diseased plants, you’d be forgiven for thinking there is …
University of Leeds https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environment/news/article/4892/an-app-to-help-african-farmers-defeat-crop-pests
A mobile phone app – launched today by an international team of scientists – will support farmers across Africa to adopt …
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GeneticLiteracyProject https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/05/11/climate-change-is-roiling-the-african-continent-with-cutting-edge-biotech-solutions-largely-blocked-governments-rely-on-more-traditional-technologies-to-boost-output/
Lominda …
SciDevNet https://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/news/fall-armyworm-worsens-hunger-among-smallholders/
In 2020, East Africa was struck by the worst locust plague in decades. Unfortunately, now, the swarms are returning.
The …
The fall armyworm menace cost African farmers 40 per cent of their harvest in 2018. Amid COVID-19 spread, …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-02-africa-neonicotinoid-insecticides.html
by Peter McGrath, Michael Norton, and Nina Hobbhahn, The Conversation
First marketed in the late 1990s, neonicotinoid insecticides have become the world's most widely …
The Guardian https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/nigeria-other-african-countries-lose-200b-to-plant-pests-diseases-yearly/
• 40% Of Crops Lost To Plant Pests, Diseases Yearly—FAO • Contributes To Economic Losses In Sub-Saharan Africa—IITA • UN …