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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 ...

Ukraine blames Russia for making grain export 'impossible'

Oct 30, 2022 (AFP)

Kyiv's maritime grain exports were halted after Russia pulled out of a landmark agreement that allowed the vital shipments. The July deal to unlock grain export...

Millions at risk of climate displacement in Middle East

Oct 30, 2022 (AFP)

Hussein Abu Saddam, head of the farmers' syndicate in Egypt which is hosting the COP27 global climate summit in November, told AFP he is already witness to a cl...

Clashes as thousands protest French agro-industry water 'grab'

Oct 29, 2022 (AFP)

Clashes between paramilitary gendarmes and demonstrators erupted with Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin reporting that 61 officers had been hurt, 22 seriously. ...

Global economy must green faster to prevent dire climate impacts

Oct 26, 2022 (AFP)

From industry, power and transport to food production, deforestation and finance, progress across 40 key indicators must accelerate dramatically -- in many case...

Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

Climate change is already playing a role, as floods, droughts and heatwaves batter harvests from Europe to Asia and threaten famine in the Horn of Africa. And e...

Heat, then floods ruin Pakistani farmers' livelihoods

Oct 24, 2022 (AFP)

But this year Jacobabad lurched from record heatwaves in May to an unprecedented deluge of rain in August that drowned crops. The floods forced tens of thousand...

New Zealand farmers protest livestock 'burp and fart' tax

Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)

Convoys of tractors, 4x4s and farmyard vehicles disrupted traffic in Wellington, Auckland and other major hubs, as protestors demanded the centre-left governmen...

Food crisis looms in Nigeria as floods destroy crops

Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)

In a wooden canoe, the 38-year-old father of four paddled his way through the murky waters, passing by his and relatives' houses, the local hospital and school....

Colombia breaks -growing record, slams 'war on drugs'

Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)

There was "an increase of 43 percent in the area planted with coca... from 143,000 hectares in 2020 to 204,000 ha in 2021," the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UN...

Mountainous Lesotho finds gold in trout fish farming

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

The yield is not grain or fruit, but rainbow trout -- the bounty from an undulating river at the foot of the peaks of Lesotho. Fishermen haul nets bulging with ...

Cranberry farmers fight climate change to protect Thanksgiving staple

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

The tart red berries, boiled with a heaping dose of sugar to make classic cranberry sauce, thrive only in the right environment -- but climate change threatens ...

How farmers could fertilize more efficiently

Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)

A reduction in the nitrogen fertilizer used and an improvement in the nitrogen use efficiency of crops are therefore important measures in climate protection. A...

Hungry elephants, Cameroon farmers struggle to coexist

Oct 17, 2022 (AFP)

Near the southern border with Equatorial Guinea, eight villages have registered complaints with the Campo Ma'an national park, a vast area of virgin forest from...

Low water level on Mississippi River hurts US grain shipping

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the river's depth at shipping hub Memphis, Tennessee, is at its lowest level since 2011. "Normally at this time of...

Court challenge in Kenya over GM crops

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

Paul Mwangi wants the High Court to set aside last week's cabinet order allowing the open cultivation and importation of GM crops to Kenya, which is currently i...

New Zealand outlines plans to tax livestock burps, farts

Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the levy would be the first of its kind in the world. Gases naturally emitted by New Zealand's 6.2 million cows are among the...

'Exceptional' year for Champagne despite record heat: producers

Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)

Grape harvesting took place in August -- earlier than usual. Both the quality and quantity this year are comparable to vintage years 2002 and 1982, the head of ...

Trimble's new agriculture displays provide next-generation performance and connectivity for in-field operations

Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)

Featuring an Android-based operating system and enhanced processing power for controlling and executing in-field work, the GFX-1060 is a 10-inch (25.6 centimete...

Kenya lobby groups protest lifting of ban on GM crops

Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)

The government of newly elected President William Ruto on Monday allowed the open cultivation and import of GM crops, saying it was in response to the drought -...