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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...

Esri and Pollen Systems provides agriculture analytics to farms

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

Built entirely on, and powered by, Esri's ArcGIS system, the PrecisionView Platform maps out spatially accurate farm blocks and provides precise locations of Io...

Agmatix partners with NASA Harvest to support sustainable agricultural

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

A combination of ground sampling and remote sensing data will be used to support farmers in their transition toward sustainable agriculture. The methodology dev...

NASA engages US farmers to bring satellite data Down to Earth

Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)

Now NASA is increasing its decades-long investment in U.S. agriculture through the launch of NASA Acres, a new consortium that will unite physical, social, and ...

Pincered at sea, lobsters get new hope on land in UK

Mar 07, 2023 (AFP)

In a few weeks' time, as part of a conservation project, they will leave their small shed in the northeastern English port of Whitby for the open sea. Whitby, w...

Global food system emissions imperil Paris climate goals

Mar 06, 2023 (AFP)

A major overhaul of the sector -- from production to distribution to consumption -- could reduce those emissions by more than half even as global population inc...

US requests consultations with Mexico over anti-GMO policy

Mar 06, 2023 (AFP)

Mexico's plan to phase out imports of genetically engineered corn by 2024 prompted Washington to voice "grave concerns" over the latest issue of contention betw...

Britain's fresh produce shortages serve up blame game

Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)

Are sparse shop shelves due to Brexit, bad weather in Spain, supermarket price wars, soaring energy bills on Ukraine war fallout, or the UK government? Faced wi...

Kim says N. Korea must meet grain production goals 'without fail'

Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)

The isolated, nuclear-armed nation -- which is under multiple sets of sanctions over its weapons programmes -- has long struggled to feed itself. North Korea ha...

Syria landmine blasts kill 10 truffle hunters

Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)

"Nine citizens were killed and two others injured" when a landmine left by Islamic State (IS) group militants blew up, the official SANA news agency said. It sa...

North Korea's Kim opens key meeting on agriculture

Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)

Normally such meetings are convened only once or twice a year, but the plenary comes just two months after a previous one, which also focused on agricultural is...

Conflicts of interest need to be avoided in publishing publicly available crop information

Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)

However, there is a lack of quantitative, objective, and robust methods to ensure the reliability of crop information, which will reduce the applicability of cr...

Walloped by hurricane, Cuba's tobacco sector struggles to its feet

Feb 25, 2023 (AFP)

Carpio, who inherited a 5.6-hectare farm from her parents, said she will never forget September 27, 2022, when Cuba's west coast was battered for hours on end b...

Pigs called in to deep-clean Champagne vineyards

Feb 24, 2023 (AFP)

Originally from New Zealand, the "kunekune" pigs -- a Maori word meaning "round and fat" -- snuffle through the earth supporting neatly planted rows of grapevin...

When men won't 'get dirty', Nicaraguan women dig for cockles

Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)

Every few days, they leave home at dawn to row about two kilometers (1.2 miles) in a fishing boat to the mangroves, where they crawl through gnarly branches kne...

Brazil suspends beef exports to China over mad cow case

Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)

Exports to China, Brazil's biggest beef customer, are automatically suspended under a deal between the two countries if regulators detect the disease, known as ...

Thai farmers tap into sustainable rubber industry

Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)

As the world's largest producer of natural rubber -- supplying more than a third of global stocks in 2021 -- Thailand's policies have stimulated massive defores...

Bird man in Turkey vows to tend to flock after quake

Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)

Birds, mostly pigeons, some motley and scruffy, others pristine and plump, scrabble for the feed as Guzel, 40, calls to them. "We take care of our birds the way...

Drought and frost batter vital potato crops in Bolivia

Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)

Cristobal Pongo, one of many peasants of the Aymara Indigenous group who devote their lives to potato farming in this region highly susceptible to climate chang...

Carbon emissions from fertilizers could be reduced by as much as 80% by 2050

Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that two thirds of emissions from fertilisers take place after they are spread on fields, with one thir...