The Santafesina startup **Bioseek**, based in Alvear, has just closed a key investment of **$1,250,000**, giving 17% of its capital to the venture capital fund **CITES**, one of the most relevant in the country in applied science, in an...
The lack of proteins is one of the main causes of malnutrition in countries with vulnerable economies, where diets rely on basic crops with low protein content.
To address this issue in Namibia, researchers have developed a nutrition and feeding...
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth and the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology have developed a method to reevaluate the safety of agricultural lands affected by radiation following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
The study, published in the Journal...
Indonesia has launched a **large-scale project** for the cultivation of **rice and sugarcane** in the region of **Papua**, located in the eastern part of the archipelago. Environmental advocates warn that this initiative could become **the world's largest deforestation project**.
It...
Climate change impacts the planet and the production styles we know in various ways.
World food crops are an example given that they are already severely affected by the increase in global temperatures. Last year, they exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius...
In the spring of 2020, a massive swarm of locusts, the largest in seven decades, devastated crops in ten countries in East Africa. This phenomenon caused estimated losses of 8.5 billion dollars, severely affecting a region where 23 million...
China is innovating in floating solar panel farming, and has found the ideal species: sea cucumbers (Apostichopus japonicus).
Photovoltaic solar energy is combined with aquaculture in an approach called aquavoltaics, developed in China. This technique integrates renewable energy generation with...
The National Service of Health and Agri-Food Quality (SENASA) confirmed the appearance of the African giant snail (Lissachatina fulica) in Argentina. It was in the town of El Soberbio, in the Guaranà department, Misiones.
It is considered one of the...
