Home gardens for food security
Home gardens can be used to alleviate hunger, malnutrition, economic hardship and disease. These are the findings of a comprehensive literature review by… Read more »
Latest posts by Rhiannon Meaden (see all)
- Guinea pig teenagers are highly domesticated - 9th April 2014
- Goats, the boffins of the farmyard - 26th March 2014
- Developments in Daphnia - 25th March 2014
The extent of arsenic pollution in contaminated groundwater
Technology is inadequately assessed for effectiveness to reduce arsenic contamination in groundwater finds a new systematic review published in… Read more »
Proteins programme snails shells to coil
It is thanks to the graded concentration of a protein that snails’ shells are coiled according to new research published in EvoDevo today. In coil-shelled… Read more »
For strawberry poison dart frogs, nearest is dearest
Female strawberry poison dart frogs can be non-choosy when it comes to finding a mate concludes research published in Frontiers in Zoology today. In a… Read more »
Celebrating Agriculture & Food Security’s first birthday
Last Friday marked the first anniversary of the launch of Agriculture & Food Security. To celebrate this important milestone in the journal’s… Read more »
Highlighting need for climate smart agricultural policies
Agriculture & Food Security publishes a new thematic series on ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’. Global warming represents one of the greatest threats to… Read more »
Investigating the developmental basis of mood and anxiety disorders
Several recently published studies have suggested that chronic stress in early life may affect the brain’s reaction to certain stimuli, causing changes in the… Read more »
Tracking the launch of Animal Biotelemetry
Animal Biotelemetry, a new open access journal published by BioMed Central has launched today. This new journal aims to support the telemetry community by… Read more »
The importance of Ugandan wetlands for food security
Wetlands contribute significantly to strategies mitigating for food insecurity in Uganda, finds a new study published in Agriculture & Food Security today.… Read more »
Nature versus nurture – better looking birds have healthier babies
The colourations and patterns on a female great tit’s (Parus major) plumage indicates the ability to produce healthier offspring, finds an article published… Read more »