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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Recent research
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract Background Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) is highly perishable, and postharvest losses threaten food security and smallholder income in Rwanda, where refrigeration and plastic packaging are largely inaccessible. This study evaluated a low-cost cassava starch–glycerol...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Antimicrobials play critical roles in the preventing, controlling, and treating of infectious diseases worldwide. Accurate quantification and understanding of antimicrobial consumption (AMC) patterns are essential for designing effective antimicrobial resistance (AMR) mitigation...
- BiologyOpen access
Long-term soil organic carbon (SOC) monitoring provides a rare opportunity to test the performance of process-based models against real data. We evaluated RothC using 20 georeferenced soil profiles sampled in 2004 and 2024 in the semi-arid steppe of Central Kazakhstan. We used th...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Strengthening systems to monitor antibiotics. An action oriented approach
Background Antibiotics have become lynchpins of our modern systems of healthcare, animal health and agriculture. Monitoring the types and volumes of antibiotics distributed, used and discharged across these systems is critical to provide evidence for action. With limited resource...
- BiologyOpen access
Societal Impact Statement Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious disease of pigs that poses a significant threat to food security, economies, and livelihoods. In Nepal, where pig farming is an important livelihood of many vulnerable ethnic communities, ASF was first reported on 19 March...
- BiologyOpen access
Deciphering the genomic signatures of climate vulnerability across 77 sheep breeds
Abstract Among domesticated species, sheep ( Ovis aries ) have achieved a wide geographic distribution due to their mobility, rusticity and ability to adapt to diverse environments and climatic conditions. Here, we characterise the genome-wide diversity of >1,000 sheep representi...
- BiologyOpen access
Agriculture is a cornerstone of Tanzania’s economy, with most production driven by small-scale farmers. In efforts to manage pest-related crop losses, pesticide use has increased significantly, heightening concerns related to human health, environmental sustainability, and regula...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), sheep and goat pox (SGP), and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) are diseases of small ruminants and are the major constraints to livestock trading in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Vaccination against these diseases individually is ch...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Accurate assessment of long-term soil organic carbon (SOC) change requires repeated field measurements and explicit treatment of temporal differences in soil mass. We quantified the net 2004–2024 SOC stock difference at 20 permanent monitoring sites in the semi-arid chestnut-soil...