Developments

Preventing the next plague

Controlling the often deadly diseases that pass from livestock to people requires public health and veterinary practitioners to work closely together...

Mekong garden goes with the flow

A bucolic agricultural research facility in Vietnam's Mekong Delta gears up to exemplify sustainable wastewater management...

Protecting the world's chocolate

The fight to save cacao trees from the spread of devastating fungi requires quick work to set up quarantine zones and develop new disease-resistant varieties...

Washing away insecticide resistance

Insecticide-resistance continues to rise and is a major problem in certain pests but new research has identified an extract of sesame oil that targets the resistance mechanism...