Highlights
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Healthy soil: the foundation for healthy people and landscapes
On 5 December – World Soil Day – we celebrate the importance of soil as a foundation for healthy people and landscapes. As global population grows and places demands on agricultural outputs, we need to think carefully about how we use resources, including land. In the context…
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5 things we can do to better ensure food security
A CABI ‘Plantwise’ plant health clinic held on market day in the village of Wangigi, outside Nairobi. Plant doctors can help farmers understand how to tackle plant pests and diseases so that they can grow more and lose less. Photo by: Sven Torfinn / Panos…
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Sustainability at the Landscape Scale
Marita Dieling and Dyno Keatinge The formation of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA, www.airca.org) in 2012 was stimulated by the need for integrated action to deliver sustainable agricultural intensification at the landscape scale. AIRCA is a nine-member alliance of…
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AIRCA reacts to third meeting of G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists
11 July 2014 – G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists recently published a communiqué following their third meeting of 19-20 June held in Brisbane, Australia. The communiqué summarizes key issues for tackling global food security. The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA) is…
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World Vegetable Center Top 10 Research publications for 2014
Beran F, Pauchet Y, Kunert G, Reichelt M, Wielsch N, Vogel H, Reinecke A, Svatos A, Mewis I, Schmid D, Srinivasan R, Ulrichs C, Hansson BS, Gershenzon J, Heckel DG. 2014. Phyllotreta striolata flea beetles utilize host plant defense compounds to create their own glucosinolate-myrosinase…