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Achieving food security for one million sub-Saharan African poor through push–pull innovation by 2020
Food insecurity is a chronic problem in Africa and is likely to worsen with climate change and population growth. It is largely due to poor yields of the cereal crops caused by factors including stemborer pests, striga weeds and degraded soils. A platform technology, ‘push–pull’, based on locally av...
Autores principales: | Khan, Zeyaur R., Midega, Charles A. O., Pittchar, Jimmy O., Murage, Alice W., Birkett, Michael A., Bruce, Toby J. A., Pickett, John A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928888/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24535391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0284 |
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