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Agriculture and how it can adapt to climate change should be given more attention at Copenhagen, a group of scientists has urged.

East Africa must adopt alternative farming techniques to combat the crop losses projected for 2050, a study says.

A farming research centre is set to open in Mozambique with funding, seeds and advice from China.

Food production in China's Yangtze River Basin faces a dire future but new growing techniques could compensate.

South African researchers have lodged an appeal against their government's rejection of a genetically modified potato.

China has reduced its sulphur dioxide emissions, but its failure to reduce nitrogen emissions could worsen acid rain in the country.

Pork tapeworm is responsible for almost a third of epileptic fits, researchers say.

Against expectations, West African rice varieties have interbred in the field — and war may have helped these improved hybrids spread.

Pests, disease and post-harvest problems are drastically reducing crop yields, a summit has heard, and quick technical fixes are a priority.

Biofuels are neither a panacea nor a pariah, says a major UN report, but they must not be grown on productive cropland.

Local knowledge forms the backbone of a programme in Benin that aims to help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change.

Africa is starting to produce more food for its people by embracing farming technology, according to a new UN report.

South African researchers will soon begin field trials of a variety of maize capable of withstanding extreme dehydration.

A cassava virus rampant in southern Africa could be facing annihilation, thanks to genetic research in South Africa.

Crop yields will plummet and millions more children will go hungry unless agricultural practices adapt to climate change, warns a report.

Farmers in drought-stricken Kenya are uprooting imported eucalyptus species that were planted near water sources.

Norman Borlaug, the scientist and humanitarian credited with leading the Green Revolution, which boosted food supplies in Asia, has died.

Research that has enrichened understanding of the African monsoon will be extended for another decade.

Tomatoes fertilised with urine flourish, say researchers, but the method's acceptance in the developing world is uncertain.

Co-planting an acacia variety with crops delivers timely natural fertiliser as well as cutting erosion and supplying wood for domestic use.