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Chinese scientists complete rice, Arabidopsis life-cycle experiments in space
Dec 06, 2022 (XNA)
With the safe landing of the Shenzhou-14 spaceship's return capsule at the Dongfeng landing site Sunday night, the seeds of rice and Arabidopsis, which have und...
Drought in Peru Andes proves fatal for alpacas, potato crops
Dec 04, 2022 (AFP)
Hardest hit are rural communities in the Arequipa and Puno departments in Peru's southern region, where the government decreed a state of emergency "due to immi...
A targeted approach to reducing the health impacts of crop residue burning in India
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
To date, government regulations, largely imposed at the state and national level, have been ineffective in curtailing crop residue burning in India. The practic...
All churned up: Austrian oat milk ad draws farmers' ire
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
The commercial was to promote Austria's western Tyrol region, renowned for its rolling pastures and rugged peaks that are a magnet for winter sports lovers. In ...
Peru slaughters more than 37,000 poultry after bird flu outbreak
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
After previously affecting wildlife in several areas nationwide, this outbreak took place at a farm in Huacho, north of Lima, the national agricultural health a...
In drought-hit Iraq, a dam threatens to swallow farmland
Nov 27, 2022 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of Iraqis are threatened by the Makhoul dam, which the government hopes will be operational on the mighty Tigris in five years. "I was born he...
Carrefour still sells beef tied to Brazil deforestation: NGO
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
Carrefour suspended beef supplies from two slaughterhouses owned by the JBS company that were linked to deforestation in the Amazon after the NGO called on the ...
Turning wastewater into fertilizer is feasible and could help to make agriculture more sustainable
Nov 22, 2022 (SPX)
A Sustainable Nitrogen Source The production of nitrogen for fertilizer is an energy-intensive process and accounts for nearly 2% of global carbon dioxide emiss...
Ivory Coast, Ghana throw down gauntlet on cocoa price
Nov 18, 2022 (AFP)
The quarrel focuses on the Living Income Differential (LID) -- a policy that Ivory Coast and Ghana introduced in 2019 to fight poverty among cocoa farmers in th...
Doggone: wet pet food 'seven times worse' for climate than dry
Nov 18, 2022 (AFP)
The Brazilian study looked at the environmental impact -- including greenhouse gas emissions, land use and water usage -- of pet food, finding that there was mo...
Rising temperatures boost olive growing in Bosnia
Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)
It was 28 degrees Celsius (82 Fahrenheit) as his family and friends used plastic rakes to help harvest olives in the last days of October, under a radiant sky. ...
California lab-grown meat start-up gets first green light
Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)
The US Food and Drug Administration said it carried out a "careful evaluation" of Upside Foods' cultivated chicken, including data and information provided by t...
Joint experiments conducted to facilitate black soil protection
Nov 15, 2022 (SPX)
Northeast China, one of the world's three major black soil regions, is regarded as a major granary for the country. However, the black soil resources face deple...
GMO skeptics still distrust big agriculture's climate pitch
Nov 13, 2022 (AFP)
But skeptics of engineered foods, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs), still aren't buying it. "I don't see why we should evolve our views when they're sti...
Better food cold chain crucial for climate, world hunger: UN
Nov 12, 2022 (AFP)
More efficient refrigeration would prevent food waste and boost revenues for small farmers, according to the report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FA...
'Voracious' giant snails spark alarm in Venezuela
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
The first colonies of the sub-Saharan Achatina fulica snail were discovered at the beginning of November on the shores of Lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela. S...
Farmers in China, Uganda move to high-yielding, cost-saving perennial rice
Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)
A new report in Nature Sustainability chronicles agronomic, economic, and environmental outcomes of perennial rice cultivation across China's Yunnan Province. A...
Smart farming tech offers sprout of hope in Greece
Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)
The high-tech farming techniques he uses are making slow progress in Greece's tradition-bound and struggling agricultural sector, but growers like him see them ...
Catholics could help cut carbon with meat-free Fridays: study
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
A team at Cambridge University looked at the impact of a call by bishops in England and Wales in 2011 to reinstate the practice. They found that despite only ab...
Two ships loaded with grain leave Ukraine: marine traffic website
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
The ships, Admiral de Ribas and Mount Baker, left port days after Russia suspended its participation in an agreement that allowed vital grain shipments to pass ...
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