Behind overlapping shanties and overcrowded streets is a novel roof gardening project in the Mathare slums of Nairobi that has...
Pests
A bio pesticide that tames the spread of the voracious fruit fly has been developed by scientists at the International...
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A scientist has invented a biological pest control virus against the voracious African bollworm that attacks over 25 crop species,...
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Vegetable and flower farmers are wiping out voracious pests through a unique sex trap that tricks the destructive male diamond...
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ICIPE scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding the life cycle of the tsetse fly, raising hopes of biologically eliminating...
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Scientists are sounding the alarm on a tiny, fast breeding insect that wipes cassava in minutes which they say could...
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A model that trains farmers to be community based extension officer is halving the death of the fatal Newcastle disease...
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An early warning system using traps that fake the smell of mating female moths has delivered a breakthrough in countering...
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Kenya is fine-tuning a new legal framework to regulate the registration and oversight of pesticides at a time when legal...
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Scientists have identified two disease resistant coffee varieties in India that are resistant to the coffee leaf rust and coffee...
