The Interreg NWE project CurCol aims to demonstrate economic potential for the production chains from regionally produced plants to colourants in packaging. The focus of CurCol is on the yellow natural colourant Curcumine.
Crop production
This seminar will describe the disruptive potentials of new local biorefineries to contribute to EU self-sufficiency with plant protein and new biobased products while supporting EU policies on environment and climate.
The Soybean Innovation Lab will be hosting our upcoming webinar, Soybean Disease in the Tropics: A Management Toolkit, on Thursday, April 9 at 8 am CST.
More than 4.3 million people in Zimbabwe are acutely food insecure or classified in IPC Crisis or Emergency phases.
The February edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
The worst desert locust outbreak in decades threatens food security across East Africa.
The January edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
Despite overall satisfactory agricultural production, continuing civil insecurity in the region is worsening food and nutrition vulnerability, with 9.4 to 14.4 million people in need of immediate assistance.
The October edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
The September edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment.
The August edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.
Protecting crops from pests and pathogens without using toxic pesticides has been a longtime goal of farmers. Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute have found that compounds from an unlikely source—microscopic soil roundworms—could achieve this aim.
Drought conditions partially easing in East Africa. Maize price currently stable in Southern Africa. Above-average winter cereal harvests in North Africa and the Middle East.