Last October, in the Caquetá foothills, more than a technical training session took place: it was a gathering to understand how to produce milk while caring for the forest and the future of Caquetá, Colombia. Nearly 60 suppliers from the company Lácteos del Hogar came together to learn and practice with a key tool—MyGeoFarm—and to understand, in a simple and participatory way, what the Zero-Deforestation Agreements (ZDAs) mean for the dairy sector and how to comply with them at the farm level.

We found conspicuous differences in the global metabolomes and proteomes of the samples sourced from the two geographic regions. A total of 30 differential metabolites were identified in the metabolomics study, the composition of which was determined to be predominantly flavonoids and found in higher amounts in the samples from Mali. The proteomics study identified 39 differentially abundant proteins, which were found to be mainly involved in metabolic and cellular processes,

Researchers at Shandong Agricultural University have discovered that a key Green Revolution gene, Rht-D1b, does far more than just reduce plant height. The researchers, led by Dr. Han Zhang, redefined this gene as a central coordinator of wheat architecture and found that it also controls tiller angle and number, providing a new genetic blueprint to significantly boost global wheat yields and food security.