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Spore the merrier: Boom in mushrooms grown on Belgian beer

Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)

The high-end fungi grown by a Brussels firm, Eclo, in a disused abattoir are finding their way to gourmet customers -- while boosting the circular economy. The ...

Dutch see new hope in report to break nitrogen impasse

Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)

Official mediator Johan Remkes unveiled a set of 24 proposals in The Hague after weeks of consultation to break an impasse between Prime Minister Mark Rutte's g...

China dips into pork reserves as rising prices fan inflation fear

Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)

Beijing's top economic planner has already dipped into the state reserves three times this month and has ordered suppliers to slaughter more pigs in a bid to re...

Latin America bears brunt of land activist murders: NGO

Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)

The group said a total of 200 land and environmental defenders -- whom it named individually -- were killed in 2021, down from a record 227 in 2020. These killi...

Hurricane Ian a 'catastrophe' for Cuba's vital cigar sector

Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)

A triangle of three municipalities in the Vuelta Abajo region of Pilar del Rio province, the Cuban region worst affected by the tropical storm, is where the bes...

Environmental groups slam UK plans to ditch pesticide laws

Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)

The government in London said it will scratch 570 environmental laws from the statute book, after they were rolled over from Britain's time in the European Unio...

Heavy floods ravage West Africa farmlands

Sep 27, 2022 (AFP)

Parts of West and central Africa have been battered by floods ravaging farms like Garba's rice plots, wiping out crops and risking worsening food insecurity in ...

Swiss mull banning factory farms

Sep 22, 2022 (AFP)

The animal rights and welfare organisations behind the initiative want to make protecting the dignity of farm animals like cattle, chickens or pigs a constituti...

Cheap mealboxes a taste of Hong Kong's economic woes

Sep 22, 2022 (AFP)

Small shops selling inexpensive two-dish mealboxes have mushroomed across one of the world's least affordable cities, cropping up in working-class and white-col...

'Watermelon plums': Israeli farm pioneer grows hybrid fruits

Sep 20, 2022 (AFP)

Ben Dor Fruits and Nurseries is based in Yesud HaMa'ala, a northern community founded in the 1880s during the first wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine, the...

Drought decimates Texas' key cotton crop

Sep 20, 2022 (AFP)

This year, his harvest is "not well," he says, but in reality, the drought in northern Texas has proven to be a disaster, with most of Page's neighbors not even...

Ukraine conflict may hike long-term grain prices 7%: study

Sep 19, 2022 (AFP)

Russia and Ukraine are global breadbaskets, together exporting about 28 percent of the world's wheat supply. Russia's blockade of Black Sea ports and sanctions ...

Change in livestock food could feed a billion people: study

Sep 19, 2022 (AFP)

Many livestock animals and farmed fish are fed on foods such as cereals, fish and pulses that are edible for humans. As the world struggles to feed hundreds of ...

Tunisian 'hanging garden' farms cling on despite drought

Sep 18, 2022 (AFP)

But the "hanging gardens" of Djebba El Olia have been put to the test this year as the North African country sweltered through its hottest July since the 1950s....

Climate-fueled hunger more than doubles in worst-hit countries; As prices soar

Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)

The analysis, "Hunger in a heating world," found that acute hunger had risen 123 percent over six years in the ten most-affected nations, defined by the most nu...

Prices soaring everywhere: from beans in Brazil to pork in China

Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)

Inflation jumped after countries emerged from Covid lockdowns and it has soared since Russia invaded Ukraine, with the IMF expecting consumer prices to rise by ...

The hungry bugs fighting Uganda's fertiliser crisis

Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)

Little did he know that the answer to his prayers would arrive in the form of bugs -- specifically the black soldier fly, an insect introduced to the East Afric...

Negev desert winemakers show way ahead in Israel's hot climate

Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)

Walking between rows of ripe grapes growing from the scorched land, David Pinto enthuses about how his vineyard has come of age in the past three years. "We're ...

Dutch city to ban meat ads in world first claim

Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)

The city of 160,000 people near Amsterdam has agreed to outlaw ads for intensively farmed meat on public places like buses, shelters and screens from 2024. The ...

Countries growing 70% of world's food face 'extreme' heat risk by 2045

Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)

Climate change is already stoking heatwaves and other extreme weather events across the world, with hot spells from India to Europe this year expected to hit cr...