Boost for Fertiliser Plan
The African Union’s target of achieving use of 50kg of fertiliser per hectare of arable land in the continent has received a boost after a $4m agreement between Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) and OCP Africa, part of Moroccan based phosphate rock miner, OCP Group.
CO2 fertilisation slows
Rising CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere have allowed green plants to add more biomass, also helping to mitigate climate change by removing some of the CO2. Now, an international team of scientists reports that the productivity of vegetation has stopped rising. (Science, 2020, 370, 1295)
Detecting resistance
At least 700,000 people die every year from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the World Health Organization. Now, a team at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has developed a way of rapidly detecting resistance in bacteria from patient samples. Read this and more articles in C&I magazine.