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Apr 16, 2023 (XNA)

All the experimental plants were sent to Earth by the Chang'e-5, Shenzhou-13 and Shenzhou-14 spacecraft. Mutation breeding in space is a new technology trend. I...

'Really hard' -- the life of an Amazon Brazil nut harvester

Apr 14, 2023 (AFP)

Lengua, 56, wears rubber boots to protect his ankles from stingers and fangs, and uses a long stick to pick up the softball-sized shells that contain about 20 n...

Historic drought adds to Argentina's economic woes

Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)

Soy and wheat crops were halved this year, while corn yield was cut by more than a third, according to official projections, slashing Argentina's exports in a s...

How plants cope with the cold light of day - and why it matters for future crops

Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)

However, for photosynthesising plants, this kind of dawn spells danger, so they have evolved their own way of making cold mornings tolerable. Research led by th...

Quake hit one-fifth of Turkey's food production: UN

Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)

The 7.8-magnitude quake on February 6, and its aftershocks, killed more than 55,000 people and left many more in dire conditions. The Food and Agriculture Organ...

Fruit in crisis: Florida's orange groves buffeted by hurricane, disease

Mar 30, 2023 (AFP)

On a recent March morning, the fifth-generation farmer drove a pickup truck through the rows in his grove, pointing out the damage from Hurricane Ian last fall ...

Vietnam's robusta: the go-to coffee bean in a warmer world?

Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)

As an interior designer in trendy Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, 42, largely stayed clear of Vietnamese coffee, puzzling over why it didn't taste as good...

How Vietnam is trying to stop rice warming the planet

Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)

Rice -- Asia's principal staple -- is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades traps about 80 times as much he...

Meatball from extinct mammoth unveiled by food tech firm

Mar 28, 2023 (AFP)

The glistening meatball was displayed under a glass bell jar by Australian-based cultivated meat firm Vow at the NEMO science museum in the Dutch capital Amster...

Biochar and energy from pyrolysis pave way for carbon-neutral agriculture in China

Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)

According to Professor and Head of Land-CRAFT at Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, this places huge demands on agricultural ...

Tackling counterfeit seeds with unclonable labels

Mar 27, 2023 (SPX)

There have been many attempts to prevent this counterfeiting through tracking labels, but none have proved effective; among other issues, such labels have been ...

Leaders sign deal on LatAm food crisis, migration at Ibero-American Summit

Mar 26, 2023 (AFP)

The goal is to reach "zero hunger" across Latin America, said Andres Allamand, a former Chilean minister and the current Ibero-American secretary general. "We h...

Moo-ving rescue: California firefighters pluck cows from mud

Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)

Footage filmed by local news crews showed the creatures chest deep, unable to move and clearly in some distress in Muscoy, around 50 miles (80 kilometers) from ...

China lifts temporary ban on Brazilian beef ahead of Lula visit

Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)

Exports of Brazilian beef to China were suspended on February 23 after an "isolated" and "atypical" case of mad cow disease was confirmed in the northern Brazil...

Race against time to rescue Argentina wine grapes

Mar 23, 2023 (AFP)

It is a race against time in the fabled Mendoza wine region in the west of the South American country once again in the grip of La Nina, a periodic weather phen...

Food prices quadruple in cyclone-hit Malawi: WFP

Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)

Compared to the same time last year, the price of maize, the country's staple food, "has soared to record levels and is now 300 percent" just over a week after ...

How do we make farming better for the planet? Ask women

Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)

In conservation terms, Gabon is a success story-protected areas and tough anti-poaching measures have allowed the numbers of critically endangered African fores...

California's desert farmers defend their river rights

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

But as a decades-long drought desiccates the US West and the once-mighty river dwindles, questions are being asked about why a handful of farmers are allowed to...

Biochar offers new promise for climate-smart agriculture

Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)

Though it sounds like a nu-metal band name, scientists theorize that biochar - a charcoal-like substance made from burning organic material like agricultural an...

Dutch farmer party hopes to reap election gains

Mar 13, 2023 (AFP)

Stegink says he doesn't know whether he'll be able to carry on earning his livelihood, as he awaits government measures aimed at limiting emissions from farming...