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KATHMANDU, April 10: Leaders from around the world have gathered in Nepal to organize the International Conference on Agrobiodiversity 2024. The conference commenced on April 9 and will continue until April 12 in Pokhara, Gandaki Province of Nepal. This event aims to facilitate the exchange of innovative traditional and scientific knowledge to advance agroecological practices, agro biodiverse planting materials, and climate-smart business and finance models that enhance nature and nutrition.

The dream of agrivoltaics is to generate your electricity and eat your edamame too. But a recent study in Agroforestry Systems shows that agrivoltaics — growing food beneath solar panels — is not so simple. Research published in September finds that overall crop yields decrease when paired with solar panels and offers a way to […]

A paper published in Nature Communications Biology contributes to the growing appreciation for the outsize role that microbes play in everything from human digestion to crop yields. Read more here.

Since the last ice age, a butterfly species called the Reverdin’s blue (Plebejus argyrognomon, known as miyamashijimi in Japanese), has survived in Japan’s grasslands maintained by human agricultural activities. But as the country’s population ages and leaves the countryside, letting the seminatural grasslands change to forests, the butterfly is now endangered. For the past five […]

Scientists are concerned that single-species carbon plantings will endanger native flora and animals while providing minor benefits. Read more here.