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Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including surveillance robots that can detect weeds and pest insects, a focus on gender capacity development in Ethiopia and smallholder farmers in Africa adopting practices to improve their field soil health.

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• Sky-high robots detecting weeds
  Rural, 27^th August 2014
• Ghana: Ashesi students launch project to reinvent pineapple farming in E/R
  Fresh Plaza, 25^th August 2014
• Ethiopia: Solving Gender Issue – Solving Food Security
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 23^rd August 2014
• Africa: Better Soil Protection Boosts Crop Yields in Africa – Report
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 22^nd August 2014
• New maize disease worries Burera farmers
  In2EastAfrica, 21^st August 2014
• Growers face further EU restrictions on pesticides
  Farmers Weekly, 16^th August 2014
• Southern Africa: Food Security Improving in SADC
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 15^th August 2014
• Genetically engineered fruit flies could save crops
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 12^th August 2014
• Food of the future: what will feed 7 billion people?
  The Guardian, 12^th August 2014
• Argentina: Huanglongbing: Si algo no tiene cura, la única salida es la prevención… pero algo no se hizo bien
  Chajarí al Día, 11^th August 2014

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