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A tweak to help potatoes withstand late blight disease

Serah Kwapo has had a nightmare for the 30 years she has been growing potatoes—that an infestation of late blight disease could wipe out her entire crop and livelihood.  Not anymore. A crop of potatoes is bioengineered to resist late blight makes her harvest. And she’s getting hope: the sleepless nights that have made growing …

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How ‘cheap plastic’ is helping to deal with Nigeria’s open defecation problem

Six federal monuments dot Kwali area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), but the area is still very rural. In the shadow of any of the monuments, it is still quite easy for YabagiImame to take a dump in the bushes of Yangoji, but that’s becoming very unacceptable lately. The entire area council—all 1,206 …

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