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A new campaign is calling for livestock farming to be replaced by a technology that creates protein in micro-organism tanks.  Precision fermentation (PF) is a form of brewing, which sees microflora like yeast or bacteria be genetically engineered to make proteins or fats (rather than beer or bread). This, campaigners say, means that we can create the same ingredients found in animal meat, wit...

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The Horn of Africa experiences two rainy seasons per year. The timing varies across the region, but rains broadly fall from March to May (the “long rains”) and from September to December Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

West Virginia University researchers are working to improve soil health and increase economic gains for Appalachian cattle farmers by bringing nutrients, like carbon, to the soil while decreasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Solar power is undergoing a boom as the energy crisis drives a shift to renewable energy following the war in Ukraine and is expected to surpass coal power by 2027, the International Energy Agency has forecast.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Nearly a decade after the first images of hamburger produced from beef cells grown in a petri dish flooded media outlets, enormous advances have been made in reverse engineering meat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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From Styrofoam packages to saran wrap to toys and dental wear, much of our daily lives involve plastics. The plastic itself is extremely cheap to produce, which is why it seems ubiquitous; but because it does not break down easily, it has become a major pollutant in waterways, oceans, and soils. In short, the Earth has a plastic problem.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Farmers have been left to navigate an increasingly complex tech stack on their own. What's desperately needed is a single, integrated, intuitive interface. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johan Willemse has extensive industry experience in commercial agriculture in Southern Africa, in various senior positions, as well as in private consulting on strategic market and price analysis for agri business. Extensive experience on the deregulation of agricultural markets (policy and farm level). He is a well-known speaker on these topics to commercial agricultural entrepreneurs and his opi...

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In the early 1990s, tillage was the leading form of weed control, with minimum/zero-tillage management practices incapable of long-term continuation. Presently, weed control through tillage has virtually disappeared as cropland management systems have transitioned largely to continuous cropping, with zero to minimal soil disturbance.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

When we’re done with our plastic, we have three options: recycle it, incinerate (burn) it, or send it to landfill. We think about recycling as the holy grail of environmental action, but it’s not. Most items can only be recycled once or twice (if they’re sent there at all), so they end up in landfill eventually. Recycling delays, but does not eliminate, plastic going to landfill. Hosted on Acast....

Researchers at the University of Bristol have found why zebra fur is thinly striped and sharply outlined. Their findings, published today in the Journal of Experimental Biology , reveal that stark black-white distinctions and small dark patches are particularly effective in thwarting horsefly attack. These characteristics specifically eliminate the outline of large monochrome dark patches that are...

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“The chance of global near-surface temperature exceeding 1.5°C above preindustrial levels for at least one year between 2023 and 2027 is more likely than not (66%).” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The shift began 20 years ago or so, when networked computers became sufficiently ubiquitous that people began using them to build and manage relationships. Social networking had its problems—collecting friends instead of, well, being friendly with them, for example—but they were modest compared with what followed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When President Vladimir Putin opens the Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg on Thursday, the attendance cast list will be closely scrutinised - in Paris, Washington, London, and at United Nations headquarters in New York. But Africans will view the event quite differently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Leaders today can have weak climate policies with the continued promise that their countries will still reach net-zero by 2050. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Narrowing the gap between the share of men and women who work is one of the very important reforms policymakers can make to revive economies amid the weakest medium-term growth outlook in more than three decades Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.