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Researchers have developed detailed maps showing optimal regions in South Africa and Eswatini for cultivating bambara groundnut, a drought-tolerant crop. Using advanced simulations, they identified planting months and land suitability, emphasising the crop’s potential to enhance food security and resilience against climate shocks. Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops.

The territory of the three-year-old tigress, known as T138, spreads across the grasslands east of the Pandai river in Bihar’s Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR). The area lies along the India-Nepal border and is part of the Chitwan-Parsa-Valmiki transboundary tiger landscape. The tigress stalked spotted deer and wild pigs yet rarely encountered people. Two decades ago,

“Twenty years ago, all this was paddy,” says Nazir Ahmad, a farmer from Qaimoh, a village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, pointing at the rows of apple saplings that now cover his land. Today, much of that landscape has changed. The irrigation channels set up for paddy still exist, running through the fields as they

As a very strong El Niño unfolds, households are likely to absorb much of the human and economic cost through lost income, higher prices, depleted savings and mounting debt. Post-Disaster Needs Assessments from 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific show that around 40 per cent of disaster impacts occur in social and productive sectors,