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VOICES OF IMPACT“ Touching lives, Creating Opportunities” Part 2
Touching lives and creating opportunities is a documentation of the voices of impact that the TAGDev program has made in the lives of students that have been participants in the program through scholarships, research, entrepreneurship, and other wrap-up services. The TAGDev program invests in individuals who become change agents in society. In this series of…
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[Press Release] PrAEctiCe: Adaptive Integrated Aqua-Agriculture Research Tackles Food and Nutrition Security in East Africa
International research consortium PrAEctiCE, a Horizon Europe project, has been granted EUR 7 million by the European Commission over 3.5 years to guide East African smallholder farmers in their agro-ecological transition. Eastern Africa – home to over 473 million people, faces significant challenges accessing adequate, safe, and nutritious food – it has an incredibly fragile…
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Fine young cannibals: locust study could lead to better pest control
Discovery of ‘anti-cannibalism’ pheromone raises possibility of spraying crops with similar chemical as non-toxic insecticide Hannah Devlin Science correspondent @hannahdev Thu 4 May 2023 19.00 BST Locusts are voracious eaters with appetites that extend to members of their own species. Now scientists have discovered an “anti-cannibalism” pheromone used by the insects to protect themselves in dense…