Leveling the financial playing field for Africa’s farmers brandeis.edu/global/news/20… #lending #fintech #investing AgroFides Brandeis University

#farming is not the source of our planetary problems but rather, modern high input farming. Past civilizations with populated cities like today's NYC or London, thrived without today's environmental menace. Unveil geopolitics.., and reinvention is needless.

Humans are also species of My Ecosystem. If humans go extinct, all landscapes won't restore to #forests. The Savanna's supports enormous Ungulate populations. Not so different from current practice of normads or non-industrial meat production. #FoodSystems

Exciting #plantscience talks, interesting research posters, stimulating career discussions, & a chill city #tartu #Estonia. Tnx New Phytologist

Leaders in the Equatorials must WAKE UP. Drought caused serious #famine across West #Africa in the early 80s.. #Climate induced #drought is becoming an #epidemic globally. It may be seasonal in the Northern hemisphere but could be long-term in the #tropics. #foodsecurity #water

Fungus-fighting #bacteria can protect #beetles during #molting, showcasing a rarely documented form of #symbiosis. In PNAS Journal Club: ow.ly/q2qt50KUU6v #fungus #exoskeleton

Interesting. If I'm correct on the history of anthrax linked to #plants (not sure), how likely is a plant-to-animal host jump with #viruses in these times?

The British Ecological Society is a signatory on the open letter to the Prime Minister Liz Truss expressing concern on recently announced environmental deregulation in the UK

How do plants limit stomatal formation during drought? We found ABA triggers a specific, destabilizing phosphocode on the master regulator SPEECHLESS, restricting stomatal lineage to conserve water. Huge efforts by Xin YANG XIN and team. Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

#Ghana's Hon.Ken.Ofori Atta's move 2wards comodity-2-#comodity trading sounds interesting. Keen how it rescues the #cedis n restore #forex #business confidence. #currencymonitoringlist #markets #trade #Africans #Finance #financialhealth #invest #credit #lending reuters.com/markets/commod…

Great news for #pollination #services #ecosystems #agroecology #foodsecurity #agriculture U.S.D.A. Approves First Vaccine for Honeybees nytimes.com/2023/01/07/sci…

Congratulations to Ache Atta-Boateng Ache Atta-Boateng on completing his DPhil defence! On the surprising mysteries of what pollinates cocoa and limits cocoa production in Ghana. Thanks to Dr Alexandra Morel💙 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭🇫🇷 and Simon Hiscock for examining, and to cosupervisors Tonya Lander and Tom Wanger-Guerrero

If true, this looks deeply problematic in so many ways: 1) using up very the limited capacities of the biosphere to normalise ongoing fossil fuel combustion; 1/3 middleeasteye.net/news/zimbabwe-…

Linking water use efficiency with water use strategy from leaves to communities Liang et al. #TansleyInsight 📖 ow.ly/puNR50PX83F

How do you call a food source consumed by locals, a ‘discovery’, then give it your new name. Why would anyone eat smth they didn’t know? If it’s eaten, obviously it already has a name. Tnx to all the matured scientists writing history the right way. ✌️😅

#GhanasNextChapter: #Ghana is positioned to hit $20K gdp PER CAPITA by strategic #economic #policies dat leverages #global #market #trends in 10yrs. From manifestos, I’m afraid current prez candidates aren’t cutout 4 even deputy ministers in that gov team.

#Global #vegetation models impacts #climate change #policy direction and actions.Prediction uncertainities can be far reaching. Zhang Huanyuan et al Oxford Ecosystems group explains why models underestimate the world's most productive #tropical #forests. rdcu.be/dZzoD

Whats insane is that those with 'Lee Kuan Yew' level ideas barely got 1% vote. NPP & NDC, great👍🏿 @ campaigning to a largely 'unsophisticated' masses; but sucks👎🏿 @ competing for share of global market economy🤦🏾‍♂️. Loans, loans..and notoriously poor maintenance culture #GhanaWatch

For the #CAF verdict on #AFCON26 champions, Senegal to hold, all CAF leadership and relevant officials and organisers..are complicit and MUST RESIGN for allowing the #AFCON26 final games to continue despite the 10mins violation of article 82 & 84. #AfricaNews