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Waste not want not: Peruvian drive to feed more with less

Apr 16, 2024 (AFP)

With five other women, she works at making 150 tasty, vitamin-packed servings that include "the peels of potatoes, peas, carrots, leeks and ginger that we used ...

Record heat rots cocoa beans threatening Ivory Coast agriculture

Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)

"The beans are turning black," and rotting, he tells AFP at his plantation near Agboville, 70 kilometres (nearly 45 miles) from the economic capital Abidjan. "T...

Farmers dump sheep killed by wolves in front of Swiss government building

Apr 06, 2024 (AFP)

Around a dozen breeders came from the Saint-Barthelemy area in the western Swiss canton of Vaud to lay out the carcasses of 12 sheep in front of the regional go...

Diversified Farming Proves Beneficial for Food Security and Biodiversity

Apr 05, 2024 (SPX)

Laura Vang Rasmussen and Ingo Grass, the study's lead researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Hohenheim respectively, present compel...

Youth and Women Spearhead Agricultural Renaissance in Senegal

Apr 05, 2024 (SPX)

Researchers highlight the agricultural sector's vital contribution to Senegal's GDP, with 15% in 2018, and the dependency of 60% of the rural population on farm...

Pakistan facing 30 percent water shortage for sowing season

Apr 03, 2024 (AFP)

The Indus River System Authority (IRSA) said the gap is based on lower-than-normal winter snowfall in Pakistan's northern glacier region, affecting catchment ar...

How agrivoltaics and controlled environments shape farming's future

Apr 01, 2024 (SPX)

Controlled environment agriculture, encompassing greenhouses, vertical farms, and hydroponics, leverages advanced horticultural and engineering techniques to tr...

82% of EU farm subsidies bolster high emissions foods: study

Apr 01, 2024 (AFP)

With global food systems accounting for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) currently "presents an e...

Antarctic expedition uncovers century-old milk powder

Apr 01, 2024 (SPX)

The research, led by Skelte G. Anema, DPhil, of Fonterra Research and Development Centre, sought to determine the degree to which dairy products have evolved du...

'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day

Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)

More than $1 trillion worth of food was binned by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people were going hungry, the UN's latest Food Was...

Clashes in Brussels as states agree EU farm policy review

Mar 26, 2024 (AFP)

Police said they used tear gas and water cannon against farmers who targeted them with eggs and Molotov cocktails, with two officers injured in the standoff and...

Swapping Bordeaux for Kent, climate change to shift wine regions: study

Mar 26, 2024 (AFP)

Increased heatwaves and erratic rainfall could wipe out vineyards from Greece to California by 2100, researchers found -- while creating optimal conditions for ...

Malawi seeks $200mn aid over El Nino-linked starvation risk

Mar 24, 2024 (AFP)

President Lazarus Chakwera declared on Saturday evening a state of natural disaster in 23 of the 28 districts of the southern African country, following a gover...

Global warming to raise food prices, inflation: study

Mar 22, 2024 (AFP)

The impact will vary but be felt everywhere, especially in developing nations, said the paper published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment on T...

In Spain, hi-tech hops keep beer bitter as climate bites

Mar 21, 2024 (AFP)

Mounted on a soaring grid system of cables and wire, these vigorous climbing plants are in full flower, covered in delicate papery-green hops which are prized f...

Zimbabwean farmers buckle under El Nino drought

Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)

The drought from the El Nino weather pattern has withered leaves, wilted cobs and raised the spectre of hunger for the 38-year-old and millions of others. "On a...

UN disputes attack over meat-eating 'omission' in climate plan

Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)

In a commentary published in the journal Nature Food on Monday, the scientists said a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report on how to achieve zero h...

EU chief outlines more concessions for bloc's farmers

Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)

The measures aim "to further ease the administrative burden" and loosen compliance with some environmental rules farmers encounter when getting money from the b...

Belgian farmer sues TotalEnergies for climate damages

Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)

Hugues Falys, the farmer from Belgium's western Hainaut province in this David-vs-Goliath case, is backed up by environmental groups including Greenpeace and th...

Australian wine industry toasts expected end to China tariffs

Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)

China imposed tariffs on key Australian exports such as wine, barley and beef in 2020, after Canberra legislated against overseas influence, barred Huawei from ...