Agriculture practices have featured heavily in the recent controversy surrounding the recent fires in the Amazon, so teams at the University of Maryland associated with NASA Harvest have proceeded to investigate their significance and impacts. Two major threats to Amazon… Read more

Due to efforts led by Harvest Hub partner Dr. Varaprasad Bandaru along with his colleague Dr. Cesar Izaurralde, the… Read more

Punjab in Pakistan is the major food producing province and titled “bread basket” for the country’s more than 220 million people. Wheat is the major cereal crop produced in Punjab, putting Pakistan 8th among the wheat producing countries. Estimation of… Read more

Agricultural residue burning is a serious problem facing Thailand and other countries in South and Southeast Asia. Burning of rice and sugarcane residues is one of the major factors that leads to dangerous air quality conditions in major cities of Thailand during dry… Read more

Timely and accurate data on local-level food security outcomes is key to both targeting interventions to populations in need, and to understanding whether interventions had their intended benefit. Unfortunately, reliable data on local-level food security and related… Read more