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Climate change means farmers in West Africa need more ways to combat pests
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Phys.Org by Loko Yêyinou Laura Estelle, The Conversation The link between climate change and the spread of crop pests has been established by research and evidence.

Farmers are noticing the link themselves, alongside higher …

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How global collaboration can prevent plant disease pandemics in Africa
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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 …

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An app to help African farmers defeat crop pests
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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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Kenya on track to commercialize GM maize by 2022 to increase yields, cut pesticide use
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The Cornell Alliance for Science has as its primary source of support a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Cornell  https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/06/kenya-on-track-to-commercialize-gm-maize-by-2022-to- …

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Climate change is roiling the African continent. With cutting-edge biotech solutions largely blocked, governments rely on tweaks of more traditional technologies to boost output
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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 …

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Fall armyworm ‘worsens hunger among smallholders’
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SciDevNet https://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/news/fall-armyworm-worsens-hunger-among-smallholders/

Speed read

  • Fall armyworm destroys maize worth almost US$5 billion annually in 12 African countries
  • In a Zimbabwe study, the pest increased …
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East Africa gets ready for return of destructive locust swarms
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FreshPlaza https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9281590/east-africa-gets-ready-for-return-of-destructive-locust-swarms/?edition=5

In 2020, East Africa was struck by the worst locust plague in decades. Unfortunately, now, the swarms are returning.

The …

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Combating fall armyworm attack amid confluence of challenges in Africa
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DownToEarth https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/africa/combating-fall-armyworm-attack-amid-confluence-of-challenges-in-africa-70405

The fall armyworm menace cost African farmers 40 per cent of their harvest in 2018. Amid COVID-19 spread, …

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Africa should ban neonicotinoid insecticides, too
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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 …

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Nigeria, other African countries lose $200b to plant pests, diseases yearly
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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 …

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