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Chief Scientist of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions - Nature Food
By integrating the best available spatial and statistical datasets, this analysis estimates the deforestation associated with the production of 184 agricultural and forestry commodities across 179 cou...
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Nonlinear genomic selection index accelerates multi-trait crop improvement - Nature Communications
Non-additive effect and trait-trait interactions are often overlooked in current genomic prediction approaches. Here, the authors extend quadratic phenotypic selection index to the genomic domain to e...
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Randomized unconditional cash transfers improved diet quantity and quality in a low-income community in Massachusetts, USA - Nature Food
In a randomized experiment in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA, lower-income individuals who received cash transfers reduced calorie deficits and increased consumption of nutrient-dense, higher-cost foods....
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Temperature thresholds of extreme heat-induced yield loss in maize and soybean reveal geographic heterogeneity across the Northern Hemisphere - Nature Food
The depiction of crop exposure to heat stress is fundamental for reliably quantifying extreme-heat-induced yield loss and crop failure. Using more than 130,000 subnational yield records, this study es...
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Food fraud in the fisheries and aquaculture sector
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have worked together to provide an overview of the common food fraud cases in the aq...
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Defining transformational adaptation and why it matters - Nature Climate Change
A three-round survey of climate change adaptation experts â researchers and practitioners from across the globe â reveals that there is broad agreement on 13 elements that are foundational for definin...
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Global nutritional equity of fishmeal and aquaculture trade flows | PNAS
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Global vaccination coverage and disease incidence in cattle, pigs, and poultry | PNAS
Vaccination against livestock diseases is an effective method to prevent and control the spread of pathogens and reduce antimicrobial consumption a...
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Losing a Hidden Ally: The Shrinking Capacity of Upland Soils to Remove Atmospheric Methane
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Beyond Climate Change: The Role of Integrated Soil Fertility Management for Sustaining Future Maize Yield in SubâSaharan Africa
Climate change is expected to worsen food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, but declining soil fertility may pose an even greater threat to crop production. Using multiple soil-crop models across fou....
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Genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies genetic loci controlling Distinctness, Uniformity, and Stability (DUS) traits in wheat - Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Key message Genetic analysis of wheat Distinctness, Uniformity, and Stability (DUS) characteristics identifies significant markerâtrait associations for 15 DUS traits, including associations for âseed...
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Farm motorization and expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa lead farmers to intensify legume cropping systems - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
In certain Sub-Saharan African countries, a transition is underway that involves increased motorization and herbicide use. This study is the first to investigate whether these recent changes are trans...
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Designing crop rotations to support sustainable and healthy diets - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Balancing the social and environmental costs of food production with the nutritional needs of future populations under climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing twenty-first century agri...
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Impacts of global warming on subnational poverty and inequality - Nature Climate Change
In addition to affecting general economic indicators, climate change could worsen poverty and inequality across and within countries. With a global subnational dataset, researchers confirm that temper...
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Communicating the need for climate action - Nature Climate Change
It is essential to understand the best way to frame a persuasive message aimed at increasing concern about climate change and support for pro-environmental action. Now a Registered Report presents a l...
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Bridging the policy gap between climate change and antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributes to nearly five million deaths worldwide each year and has the potential to reverse decades of progress in human health care, harm delicate ecosystems, and de...
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Promoting climate-resilient agriculture and food security through school feeding
School feeding programmes are increasingly recognised as a transformative platform for food systems that can be delivered at scale, with multiple benefits for both human and planetary health. This pot...
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Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene
The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.
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Assessing the health risks of rice cadmium content standards in China
The current rice cadmium limit is insufficient to safeguard human health, warranting stricter thresholds.
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Plant traits explain variation in symbiotic nitrogen fixation responses to global nitrogen enrichment: a meta-analysis - Nature Communications
Anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment reduces symbiotic nitrogen fixation, but environmental factors alone cannot explain this response. This meta-analysis shows that integrating both environmental factor...
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Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot artificial intelligence (AI)âgenerated Python function...
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Beyond yields: Smallholdersâ realities matter for biodiversity
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Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss
Abstract. Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity, yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly con
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Governance Challenges of Smallholder Agricultural Carbon Projects and the Potential of Digital Tools: Insights from Kenya
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Spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020 - Nature Climate Change
Emissions from croplands are an important source of GHG emissions that can be shaped by management. This study presents maps of emissions globally for different crops, showing that drained peatlands, ...
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Analytical hierarchy process-based mapping of social vulnerability to climate change in mountainous communes across Northwestern Vietnam - GeoJournal
Mountainous regions are highly climate-vulnerable. Despite this, fine-scale assessments of social vulnerability to climate change in mountainous regions remain limited. This study addresses this gap f...
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The invisible subsoil compaction risk under no-till farming | PNAS
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Promoting climate-resilient agriculture and food security through school feeding
School feeding programmes are increasingly recognised as a transformative platform for food systems that can be delivered at scale, with multiple beneâŠ
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The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation
Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media.
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Resilient people, resilient systems: The essential role of social protection in a polycrisis world - Devereux - 2025 - International Social Security Review - Wiley Online Library
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Resilient people, resilient systems: The essential role of social protection in a polycrisis world
Resilience, increasingly emphasized in both development and humanitarian discourses, is a complex concept that is often treated simplistically, leading to residualist or reactive interventions that d...
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Cell Reports Sustainability: Cell Reports Sustainability
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A trait-based framework to identify microbial keystone taxa for microbiome engineering
This work focuses on discovering microbes that matter most. By integrating ecological theory with omics data, it offers a framework to identify, prioritize, and cultivate influential microbes for inco...
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Closing the gap between circular economy talk and walk
The growing gap between circular economy (CE) talk and actual circularity on the ground is due to chronic underestimation of the challenges involved in making supply chains circular. Overcoming these ...
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Downy mildew disease-suppressive soils transmit a protective core microbiome to the phyllosphere
Abstract. Plants can respond to pathogen attack by assembling disease-suppressive microbiomes. In Arabidopsis thaliana, infection by the obligate foliar do
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Increasing applied pesticide toxicity trends counteract the global reduction target to safeguard biodiversity
The 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) obligates all countries to reduce pesticide risks by 50% by 2030. In this study, we derived the trends of total applied toxicity (TAT) globally ...
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Large underestimations of warming-induced soil carbon emissions from oversimplistic Q10 indicator
The sensitivity of soil microbial respiration to climate warming is a major source of uncertainty in predicting soil carbon (C) emissions to the atmosâŠ
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Global estimates of women's and men's employment in agrifood systems from 2000 to 2021
Despite the recognized importance of women in agrifood systems (AFS), global estimates of their employmentâparticularly in the off-farm segmentâremainâŠ
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A global analysis of pollen-based reconstructions of land climate changes during DansgaardâOeschger events
Abstract. DansgaardâOeschger (DâO) warming events are comparable in magnitude and rate to the anticipated 21st century warming. As such, they provide a good target for evaluation of the ability of sta...
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Improving future agricultural sustainability by optimizing crop distributions in China
Abstract. Improving agricultural sustainability is a global challenge, particularly for China's high-input and low-efficiency cropping systems with environ
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Increased pesticide use and ecotoxicity impacts associated with plant-based dietary shifts
Shifting toward more sustainable diets has multiple health and environmental benefits, yet its implications for pesticide footprints remain poorly understood. This study quantifies the potential chang...
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Good health starts with a healthy environment - Nature Water
Although it is widely recognized that safeguarding air, soil, and water is essential for protecting both animal and human health, efforts to protect the environment remain insufficient.
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Abiotic and biotic controls of non-native perennial plant success in drylands - Nature Ecology & Evolution
It is unclear whether the harsh abiotic conditions of drylands hinder biological invasions. This global analysis shows that drylands are vulnerable to non-native plants and are likely to become more s...
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Validity of the Diet Quality Questionnaire Compared with Observed Intake for Estimating Population-Level Diet Quality in Rwandan Adults
The diet quality questionnaire (DQQ) is a standardized low-burden tool for collecting data on minimum dietary diversity for women (MDD-W) and other population-level diet quality indicators related to ...
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Insuring those who bear the risk: The impact of gender-inclusive framing on insurance uptake in Kenya
Most insurance for crop and livestock loss that has been developed in low income countries protects against shocks in traditionally male spheres of ecâŠ
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The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
Earthâs climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping...
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Only 1 in 3 researchers worldwide is a woman. This must change. FAO's Chief Scientist, Charles Spillane, shares why role models, mentorship and systemic change are key to closing the gender gap in science and innovation.
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science | United Nations
The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.
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Varieties on paper: Are varieties in national catalogs available to African farmers?
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Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization is critical for Food Systems Transformations across Africa
Over the past week (3-6 Feb 2026) I attended the Africa Regional Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (ACSAM) organized by FAO, in collaboration with the Government of the United Repub...
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IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment: Summary for Policymakers
The Summary for Policymakers of the Methodological assessment of the impact and dependence of business on biodiversity and natureâs contributions to people will strengthen the knowledge base to suppor...
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A framework for assessing the trustworthiness of scientific research findings1 | PNAS
Vigorous debate has erupted over the trustworthiness of scientific research findings in a number of domains. The question “what makes research find...
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