Developments

All used up and nowhere to go?

The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment reports a broad consensus that humankind is depleting the earth's resources at an unsustainable and accelerating rate...

Ready for their close-up

An innovative video project lets Bangladeshi farmwives share their seed-health expertise further afield than they are free to travel...

Africa's engine for growth

Agriculture supports 60 per cent of all Africans but receives short shrift in reports about development on the world's neediest continent...

A worm's eye view of biocontrol

Insect pest control using local species of nematodes works better than either pesticides or commercial preparations of exotic nematodes...

Watch the trees grow

Trees bio-engineered to grow quickly are helping to stem encroachment on Kenya's dwindling forests and earning subsistence farmers extra income...