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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Jun-2025 03:09 ET (17-Jun-2025 07:09 GMT/UTC)

Turning farm waste into sustainable roads

University of Miami
Grant and Award Announcement

Xianming Shi, civil and architectural engineering department chair at the University of Miami, was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to research how to turn farming byproducts into sustainable asphalt.

ICARDA and Japan join forces to boost food security in Egypt

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
Business Announcement

Mr. Aly Abousabaa, Director General of ICARDA, met with His Excellency Mr. IWAI Fumio, the Japanese Ambassador to Egypt, on 27 January 2025, in Cairo, to commemorate ICARDA’s recent partnership with the Government of Japan to implement the transformative project Reversing Egypt’s Diminishing Food Security.

Scaling the pressure fluctuation in an accelerated liquid

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and the Department of Mechanical Science, Saitama University, has developed a unified model to scale the transitional pressure development in a one-dimensional flow. This achievement provides a better understanding of how pressure fields build up in the confined fluid system for various acceleration situations, which might be applicable to the biomechanics-related impact problem, such as human brain injuries caused by physical contact.

Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, PRESTO, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development

Western Kenyan farmers favor restoring land with native trees. Yet barriers remain

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Smallholders in Western Kenya strongly support native-tree restoration due to long-term benefits for landscape restoration, productivity and livelihoods, new research shows. New digital tools and community buy-in are successfully backing restoration projects, though barriers remain. Researchers say that short-term farmers’ needs and concerns to planting trees should be given more attention to ensure the success of restoration projects.

Journal: People and Nature

Damage caused to crops by barnacle geese can be mitigated with designated set-aside and repelling fields

University of Turku
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers from the University of Turku and the Natural Resources Institute Finland examined the foraging behaviour of barnacle geese in Northern Karelia, Finland. In this region, geese feeding on agricultural fields cause large economic damage to farms. The researchers’ findings suggest that the combined use of areas where geese are not disturbed and no-go areas where geese are repelled from fields can help to mitigate the damage to crops as well as the local human-wildlife conflict.

Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology

New discovery paves the way for more resistant soybeans to combat $1.5 billion crop loss from nematode infection

American Phytopathological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Soybean growers across the globe face a silent but devastating threat: the soybean cyst nematode (SCN). This microscopic pathogen attacks soybean roots, jeopardizing crop yields and causing more than $1.5 billion in annual losses in the United States alone. Despite decades of effort, effective solutions to protect soybeans from SCN remain elusive, as the pathogen is often detected only in later stages because its early symptoms are subtle. However, new research offers hope for a sustainable solution to this agricultural challenge.

Journal: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Funder: United States National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, North Central Soybean Research Program, Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station

Predicting ‘male-time’ with the Androgen Clock

University of Otago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka have created a world-first epigenetic tool which has implications for medicine, sports, and agriculture.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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