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Pan-African Youth Forum

October 4, 2024

The month-long celebration will adopt the 2024 AU’s theme of the Year, “Educate an African fit for the 21st Century: Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality, and relevant learning in Africa”.

IFDC symposium “Future Proofing: Unified Action for Soil Health and Food Security”

September 13, 2024

The upcoming symposium from IFDC, themed “Future Proofing: Unified Action for Soil Health and Food Security,” is on November 4 at KIT Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands. IFDC is an independent non-profit organization that combines innovative research, market systems development, and… Continue Reading…

Pest/disease control • Push-Pull in practice

Bioactive Volatiles – Natural Allies in the Battle Against Fall Armyworm

July 31, 2024

Plant volatiles are the secondary metabolites that plants release into the air. Almost one-fifth of the atmospheric CO2 fixed by land plants is released back into the air each day as volatiles. They are protection against biotic and abiotic stresses… Continue Reading…

Push-Pull in practice

The Effect of Brachiaria Rows on Stemborer Damage on Sorghum

July 24, 2024

Sorghum is mostly known as the world’s fifth-most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize, and barley. It is one of the main staple foods for many farmers in Africa, in particular the smallholder farmers. It’s a plant-based protein, high… Continue Reading…

The 3rd National MAC Meeting in Uganda and socio-ecological validation with stakeholders

July 19, 2024

NARO and ULUND are organizing the UPSCALE model validation workshop due to take place on 22nd July 2024 at Nile Village Hotel in Jinja. The team is developing a model on the interaction of factors surrounding the push-pull ecosystem. To… Continue Reading…

SPAC 2024 – Science and Partnerships for Agriculture Conference

July 17, 2024

The 2024 edition of the SPAC conference will host its usual lead conferences among many other convenings; it will host the Third Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Conference; the Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD) conference, the AU-EU Horizon Europe… Continue Reading…

Rwanda National Agriculture Show 2024

July 17, 2024

The MINAGRI announced the 17th National Agriculture Show (31st July to 9th August) at Mulindi/Gasabo Showground, Kigali City.

Tropical Summit 2024

June 20, 2024

The main objectives of Tropical Summit are thus to promote the transfer of knowledge, stimulate multidisciplinary collaboration and the involvement of stakeholders, and contribute to the co-creation and innovative projects, capitalizing and densifying existing initiatives and collaboration platforms for the rapid implementation of tangible and robust solutions.

JKUAT Scientific, Technological and Industrialization Conference

February 19, 2024

The hybrid JKUAT Conference offers a wonderful opportunity for delegates to learn and share about the various topics that are relevant to the industry.

Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) Summit

November 6, 2023

The Africa Union Commission (AUC) is organizing the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health (AFSH) Summit from 5-7 November 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Striga weeds

Striga or 'witchweeds' are parasitic weeds that affect cereal crops in many parts of Africa, reducing production from 30 to 100%, or complete loss of the crop. If maize plants are attacked by both stemborers and striga weed, the yield... Continue Reading…
June 20, 2022

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5 Sep

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@lunduniversity released a publication in which they reviewed how changes in temperature, precipitation and atmospheric CO2 concentration can influence PPT components.💡

🔗https://upscale-hub.eu/publications/climate-change-and-ecological-intensification-of-agriculture-in-sub-saharan-africa-a-systems-approach-to-predict-maize-yield-under-push-pull-technology/

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upscale_h2020 UPSCALE @upscale_h2020 ·
2 Sep

🌿 How can bioactive volatiles be harnessed to protect crops from the destructive Fall Armyworm, and what does this mean for sustainable agriculture?

📖 Discover at https://upscale-hub.eu/bioactive-volatiles-natural-allies-in-the-battle-against-fall-armyworm/

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