World Leaders Must Look at the Big Picture to Solve Food Crisis

Jul 13, 2022

From the worst drought in four decades threatening famine across the Horn of Africa to extreme heat in South Asia, the war in Ukraine and the unequal pace of pandemic recovery, global food systems are under extraordinary pressure. • The combined result is...

SA lab gets rights to fungus-resistant banana

Jun 24, 2021

A South African tissue culture lab has procured the exclusive rights to distribute a banana variety that offers moderate resistance against banana wilt, a soil-borne fungus that has wreaked havoc on bananas in southeast and South Asia, the Middle East and parts of...

Swarming Locusts: People Used To Eat Them, But Shouldn’t Anymore

May 6, 2020

Massive swarms of locusts are sweeping across South Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. The current outbreak is the worst in recent decades. One million hectares of land is under threat in eight countries in the Horn of Africa. This is a crisis and a serious...