Pesticides likely caused 'Havana syndrome' that affected Cuba-based diplomats

A new interdisciplinary study on the "Havana Syndrome" led by Dr. Alon Friedman M.D. of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and Dalhousie University Brain Repair Center in Nova Scotia, Canada, points to overexposure to pesticides as a likely cause for neurological symptoms among Canadian diplomats residing in Havana, Cuba in 2016. This is the first study of its kind focused on Canadian diplomats.

Scientists find ways to improve cassava, a 'crop of inequality' featured at Goalkeepers

Today, as world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly, hundreds of emerging leaders focused on fighting global inequality came together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's third annual

Industry bank threatens action against loan-defaulting bakers

The Bank of Industry (BOI) has promised to take action that would ensure the recovery of the loan given to Master and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN). The Regional Manager, North Central Region of the bank, Mr. Jack Kings, said this during a meeting held at Abuja.

Our farmers need support, says AFAN president

The president of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Architect Kabir Ibrahim has said that members of his group need to be supported from the grassroots to federal level by government with effective agricultural policies towards ensuring food security. He made the statement in a chat with Food Farm News in his office at Abuja.

Data analysis, conditioning centres, panacea to food insecurity—Experts

 As a part of efforts to develop the agricultural sector by the private sector, experts in the sector have agreed that for agriculture to thrive in the country, data analysis and the establishment of conditioning centres were the panacea to food insecurity in the country. They aired their views at the 25th Nigeria Economic Summit held in Abuja.

Genome-edited bull passes on hornless trait to calves

For the past two years, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been studying six offspring of a dairy bull, genome-edited to prevent it from growing horns. This technology has been proposed as an alternative to dehorning, a common management practice performed to protect other cattle and human handlers from injuries.

Economic impacts of colony collapse disorder

The work of a Montana State University professor examining the economic impacts of colony collapse disorder among commercial honeybees was published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists last month.

RMRDC, NAQS promise support to organic farming

DG. RMRDC Prof. Ibrahim Hussaini Doko and DG. NAQS Dr. Vincent Isegbe 

The Raw Material Research Development Council (RMRDC) and National Agricultural Quarantine Services (NAQS) have promised to use their mandates to support and ensure the fast development of organic farming based on its economic potential ability to increase revenue and job creation in the country.

‘Stakeholders already working towards an Act for organic farming practice ... as an executive bill’

The Country Coordinator, Ecological Organic Agriculture initiative in Nigeria (EOA) Dr. Olugbenga Adeoluwa has disclosed in an interview with Food Farm News that efforts have commenced towards forwarding a bill for an Act to the National Assembly and that the bill would preferably be sent as an executive bill through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD). Excerpts...

Why some songbirds care for the 'wrong' kids

Interspecific feeding -- when an adult of one species feeds the young of another -- is rare among songbirds, and scientists could only speculate on why it occurs, but now, Penn State researchers have new insight into this behavior.