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From artificial meat to fine-tuning photosynthesis: Food System Innovation – and how to get there
20.05.2020 · Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchFood production has always shaped the lives of humans and the surface of the Earth. Be it plough or refrigerator, time and again innovations have transformed the ways we grow, process, and consume food over the last millennia....
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Summary of preliminary Data about Obesity and Severity of COVID-19
04.05.2020 · German Center for Diabetes ResearchIn a Nature Reviews Endocrinology “Comment” authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), the Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health call for more research about the...
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Dual-purpose chicken, insect food and phosphorus efficiency - what is the state of research?
25.03.2020 · Leibniz-Institut für Nutztierbiologie - FBNGerman Association for Poultry Science meets in Rostock. The demand for and the manufacture of products from poultry farming has been rising constantly for years; the consumption of approx. 220 eggs and 20 kg of poultry meat per...
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Feeding the world without wrecking the planet is possible
25.03.2020 · Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - PIK20/01/2020 - Almost half of current food production is harmful to our planet – causing biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and water stress. But as world population continues to grow, can that last?
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First evidence of rare amino acid in plants–Discovering what makes durian stink
28.02.2020 · TUM@LSBResearchers at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) have confirmed the presence of the rare amino acid ethionine in a plant – or more precisely, in the fruit of...
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Plant Culture Hall goes on tour – Model container will be presented in Dresden from the end of March
24.02.2020 · Christian Schafmeister / IPKThe plant culture hall of the IPK is one of the flagships of the institute. There, growth conditions such as temperature, light and wind can be regulated in a targeted manner. One of the containers in which the plants grow is...
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Towards a Chemical Pesticide-free Agriculture: 20 European Research Institutes Undertake an Ambitious Roadmap
24.02.2020 · Leibniz Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF)A strong demand from public authorities, agriculture professionals, and society in general, all over Europe, has spurred collaborative research in order to accelerate the agroecological transition. To face a challenge of this...
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Artificial intelligence in agriculture: White Paper on AI and "Special Session AGRAR: Artificial Intelligence"
20.02.2020 · LFV LEAI in the agricultural sector is becoming more tangible: the European Commission published a White Paper on Artificial Intelligence on 19 February 2020. The joint project DAKIS was presented by Prof. Dr. Bellingrath-Kimura...
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IGZ and ZALF head the Coordinating Office of the BMBF program “Agricultural Systems of the Future”
04.02.2020 · ZALFAnother success for Brandenburg’s non-university research institutes: The Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) in Grossbeeren and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Muencheberg...
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LRA-FN and DIfE at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
09.01.2020 · Leibniz Research Alliance 'Food and Nutrition'Dr. Doreen Burdack presented the topic "Opportunities and Risks of Digitalisation in Nutrition as well as their Impact on Agriculture, Consumers, Markets, Health and Sustainability"
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Global food production at risk of simultaneous heat waves across breadbasket regions
10.12.2019 · PIKCertain patterns in the jet stream encircling the Earth can bring simultaneous heatwaves to breadbasket regions responsible for up to a quarter of global food production. Particularly susceptible are Western North America,...
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New definition of cattle farming
30.09.2019 · Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)Cattle farming is caught between global food security, animal welfare and environmental consequences. A new major (BovReg) project of the FBN will provide information that is urgently needed in practice and basic research.
