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AFN: It’s Time to Take Action on Cybersecurity in Agrifood

The growth of AI, automation, and digitization is putting cybersecurity at the center of food security.

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CUREUS: Plant-Derived Citrulline: From Agricultural Sources to Functional Food Applications

Citrulline, a non-protein amino acid, has recently gained prominence as a valuable functional food bioactive due to its many physiological and nutritional advantages.

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ResearchGate: Towards Commercial Smallholder Farming, the Key to Africa’s Agricultural Development

This publication addresses the challenges faced by African smallholder farmers and synthesizes lessons learned from various international agricultural interventions.

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AGENCE ECOFIN: The FAO Report on the State of Forests in Africa

Africa continues to face severe land degradation and a net loss of forest area. In response to these pressures, commitments to forest restoration are growing across the continent.

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AgNavigator: Four Emerging Opportunities Set to Shape the Next Wave of Agricultural Innovation

The next major opportunities may depend less on inventing new technologies and more on building the financial, commercial and data infrastructure needed to bring existing innovations to farms.

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AgNavigator: China to Foster 10,000 High-Potential Agtech Firms in Drive Towards Self-Reliance in Farm Science

China is implementing a programme to develop its most promising agtech companies as it seeks greater self-reliance and strength in agricultural science and technology.

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FINANCIAL TIMES: How Protein Took Over the World

The protein boom is reshaping the food industry and our diets. The growing craze for protein is now giving cheesemakers access to a more lucrative market.

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AGENCE ECOFIN: African Poultry Sovereignty Is First and Foremost a Battle for Competitiveness

Many African countries still import a large share of the poultry they consume. This is often seen as a sign of insufficient production capacity, but the real problem lies elsewhere.

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FAO: Contribution of the livestock sector to food security and sustainable agrifood systems

Diverse foods derived from livestock production systems, including grazing and pastoralist systems, and from the hunting of wild animals, provide high-quality proteins, important fatty acids and various vitamins and minerals.

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AFN: There’s a market for saline agriculture. It just needs a boost

Years of research and field trials have demonstrated many ways to grow crops sustainably in saline conditions. But even as punishing droughts, saltwater intrusion and intensive irrigation threaten to drive.

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