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Singapore engineer pivots from oil rigs to 'fish farm of the future'
Feb 17, 2024 (AFP)
The tiny city-state imports 90 percent of its food but hopes to locally source about a third of it by 2030 to guard against supply disruptions such as climate c...
South Korean scientists develop sustainable 'meaty rice'
Feb 15, 2024 (AFP)
The new grain was grown in a lab by researchers at Seoul's Yonsei University and is packed with beef muscle and fat cells. The result is a pink rice that the te...
EU adopts fallow land exemption after farmer protests
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
First lifted in 2023 in response to market disruptions caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the rules will remain partially suspended this year, according to...
Temperatures are rising, but soil is getting wetter - why?
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Why did soil get wetter even as the planet got hotter? A recent paper from Harvard University researchers found that precipitation, rather than temperature, ove...
Smart agriculture: Farming in the digital age
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
"The skills needed for today's farmers are not the same as they were five to 10 years ago, and it's important for us to train the next generation of farmers to ...
Study Highlights Excessive Strain on Planetary Boundaries by Global Food System
Feb 12, 2024 (SPX)
Since the Green Revolution of the 1960s, intensified agricultural practices have been pivotal in securing food supplies. Yet, these advances come at a considera...
Climate change parches Morocco breadbasket amid policy pitfalls
Feb 11, 2024 (AFP)
On the road leading up to his hamlet in Berrechid province, Morocco's historical breadbasket situated some 40 kilometres (about 25 miles) southeast of Casablanc...
Andean farmers use age-old technique amid climate change
Feb 10, 2024 (AFP)
On the border of Peru and Bolivia, the Waru Waru -- an indigenous Quechua word that means ridge -- are once again protecting potato and quinoa crops as they did...
Meloni restores tax breaks after farmer protests reach Colosseum
Feb 09, 2024 (AFP)
Farmers have been staging small protests from Sicily to Turin, demanding action on a range of issues. Their grievances range from the cost of fuel to European U...
Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland, locations raise concerns
Feb 08, 2024 (UPI)
For example, a Chinese company bought farmland in 2021 for acorn-milling facility near an Air Force base in Grand Forks, N.D. Another piece of land in Michigan ...
EU unveils 2040 climate targets in political tightrope act
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
The 27-nation European Union has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050, and set a first interim target for 2030: to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent co...
EU chief bows to protesting farmers on pesticide use
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
The original proposal, put forward by her European Commission as part of the European Union's green transition, "has become a symbol of polarisation," she told ...
Tractor army gathers at the gates of Rome as EU confronts a farming minefield
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
Italy is one of a number of countries across Europe where farmers have staged weeks of demonstrations to demand lower fuel taxes, better prices for their produc...
EU walks farming minefield with new climate goals
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
With European elections just months away, the European Commission will Tuesday put forward its next major target for cutting the bloc's global warming emissions...
Caterpillar profits jump despite weakness in China
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
The industrial giant, which has benefited from robust pricing on equipment and increased infrastructure investment in the United States, reported record revenue...
French govt under fire for putting pesticide phase-out on hold
Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)
Agricultural workers started to lift roadblocks after more than a week of demonstrations, following government promises of cash and eased regulation. Among the ...
Macron leaves angry farmers for soon-to-be NATO member Sweden
Jan 30, 2024 (AFP)
Macron left for Stockholm on Monday evening, just as angry French farmers began to set up blockades around Paris. In recent weeks, a slew of protests have rocke...
Tajikistan wants to stockpile food over climate change
Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)
Tajikistan is an impoverished ex-Soviet mountainous country in Central Asia that is one of the world's worst-affected by climate change. "I stress that every fa...
Protesting farmers block major roads into Paris
Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)
In recent weeks there has been a slew of protests in France, a major agricultural producer, by farmers angry about incomes, red tape and environmental policies ...
Fixing food could produce trillions in annual benefits: report
Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)
In the research, a consortium of scientists and economists found that transforming food systems across the world could prevent 174 million premature deaths, hel...
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