Africa south of the Sahara is producing more than six times as much food as it did in 1961. That’s a much bigger increase than that of the world as a whole, which has merely quadrupled agricultural ...
Many herbivore animals face salt shortages because plants vary in sodium. This shortage shapes movement, safety, and survival ...
Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major ...
How are biodiversity losses reshaping how ecosystems function? A recent study quantifies the impact of biodiversity and ...
In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming—where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at ...
Water systems in Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly in crisis. Growing populations and expanding economies are relentlessly driving rising demands. Like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, ...
Almost every country in the world has seen fertility rates decline over the past few decades, but one region's birth rates are still so high that it is expected to provide more than half the global ...