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A global team of researchers led by ETH Zurich, ICARDA, and CIMMYT has released the Global Wheat Full Semantic Organ Segmentation (GWFSS) dataset — a major open-access resource for improving computer vision in crop phenotyping. The dataset includes over 50,000 RGB images of wheat fields from 11 institutions across five continents, enabling the development of AI models for organ-level segmentation (leaves, stems, spikes) to support wheat breeding and agroecological research in diverse environments.

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Wang, Z. et al.
Plant Phenomics 7

Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a gas used to study the carbon cycle because plants absorb it in a similar way as they absorb carbon dioxide. However, to use COS effectively, all sources and sinks must be understood and nowadays there still is an unexplained missing sink in high northern latitudes. Budget calculations of COS in boreal regions typically look at the contribution of forests, but not of wetlands. We measured COS fluxes over a boreal wetland, compared them to COS fluxes measured over a nearby forest and upscaled the fluxes to estimate their contribution to the boreal region and to verify if boreal wetlands can account for the missing sink. With our measurements we show the importance of including boreal wetland COS fluxes in budget calculation

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de Vries, Anna; Wohlfahrt, Georg; Kohonen, Kukka-Maaria ; Abadie, Camille; Remaud, Marine; Kesselmeier, Jürgen; Laasonen, Asta; Whelan, Mary; Mammarella, Ivan; Vesala, Timo
Geophysical Research Letters 52(12), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gl112858

This conceptual paper compares three overarching frameworks used to analyze agri-food systems: multifunctionality, ecosystem services, and the just transition approach. The authors argue that while the first two concepts have been useful for recognizing agriculture’s multiple functions and environmental contributions, they fall short of addressing systemic social and ecological challenges. The “just transition” framework is proposed as a more comprehensive alternative that integrates justice, sustainability, and governance dimensions, offering pathways for transformative policy innovations toward equitable and sustainable food systems.

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Mann, S., Buergi, E., Schader, C., & Jacobi, J.
International Journal of Social Economics, 52(8)

A risk assessment framework based on a global synthesis of food system modeling reveals how individual and combined interventions can reduce the risk of overshooting critical environmental limits—land use, GHG emissions, freshwater use, and nutrient cycles—by 2050.

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Michalis Hadjikakou, Nicholas I. Bowles, Ozge Geyik, et al.
OneEarth
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Angnes G, Denny DMT, Grenz J, Libório Romanelli T, Cherubin MR
Experimental Agriculture. 2025;61:e13.

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