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The power of compost - making waste a climate champion

Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)

Professor Susanne Schmidt from UQ's School of Agriculture and Food Sciences said adopting a Precision Compost Strategy (PCS) in large-scale agriculture could im...

100 percent compostable coffee balls bid to take on Nespresso

Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)

The Migros supermarket chain hopes its innovation will cash in on consumers' environmental concerns by eliminating the aluminium and plastic waste of regular co...

Dying of hunger: What is a famine?

Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)

Here is an exploration of a term that evokes the very worst of human suffering. - What is a famine? - "Famine" is a word freighted with dread of hunger and priv...

'We've gone back 50 years': Pakistan farmers count flood damage

Sep 03, 2022 (AFP)

"We have gone back 50 years," said Ashraf Ali Bhanbro, a farmer in Sindh province whose 2,500 acres of cotton and sugarcane -- on the verge of being harvested -...

Pakistan floods threaten Afghanistan food supply: UN

Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)

The UN's World Food Programme said much of the food aid transited through Pakistan by road -- a network that has been severely affected by the worst floods in t...

Pretreating soil with ethanol protects plants from drought

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

As ethanol is safe, cheap, and widely available, this finding offers a practical way to increase food production all over the world when water is scarce, withou...

Chinese police rescue 150 cats headed for dinner tables

Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)

The animals were crammed into rusty cages when they were found by police in the eastern city of Jinan in Shandong province, Humane Society International (HSI) s...

Barbecue-bashing French green MP stirs up carnivores

Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)

Sandrine Rousseau, a leading figure in the EELV party and self-declared "eco-feminist", has raised one of the most talked about topics of the end-of-holidays pe...

UN ship arrives in Africa with grain for Ethiopia's hungry

Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)

The bulk carrier MV Brave Commander arrived in the Horn of Africa port city two weeks after leaving a Black Sea port in Ukraine, the UN's World Food Programme s...

Pakistan floods fuel 'back-breaking' food inflation

Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)

The floods have submerged a third of the country, killing more than 1,100 people and affecting over 33 million. Recovery could cost more than $10 billion, accor...

Urban crops can have higher yields than conventional farming

Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)

"Despite its growing popularity, there's still quite a lot we don't know about urban agriculture, like whether the yields are similar to conventional agricultur...

'All dead': a devastated farmer in southern China longs for rain

Aug 26, 2022 (AFP)

But this year's crop is devastated, another casualty of a blistering heatwave that has engulfed southern China in the country's hottest summer on record and sub...

Dry summer puts squeeze on French Alps cheese

Aug 26, 2022 (AFP)

"Everything's yellow and parched, so we'll have to bring them down from the pastures a month early," said Theo Bargetzy, 28, as cowbells rang out in a field som...

China warns of 'severe threat' to harvest from worst heatwave on record

Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)

The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts this summer -- phenomena that scientists say are becoming more frequen...

Deep concern about food security in East Africa

Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)

According to a July 29 report from the international Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, the worst drought in 70 years has left more than 16 million peop...

Food production impacting Earth and its natural processes

Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)

Earth system processes refer to the natural activities that keep the planet in a habitable and useful state. This includes processes occurring in the different ...

22 million face starvation in Horn of Africa: WFP

Aug 19, 2022 (AFP)

Years of insufficient rainfall across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have caused the worst drought in 40 years and conditions akin to famine in the hardest-hit are...

Drought blamed for dozens of cow poisoning deaths in Italy

Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)

The Piedmontese cattle on the farm in Sommariva del Bosco, near Turin in northwest Italy, died suddenly due to acute prussic acid poisoning on August 6, accordi...

China heat wave pushes up prices as hens lay fewer eggs

Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)

Extreme weather has become more frequent owing to climate change, scientists say, and this will likely grow more intense as temperatures rise, impacting economi...

Drought declared in several parts of England

Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)

At a meeting of the National Drought Group, the government's Environment Agency said the "drought trigger threshold had been met" in parts of southwestern, sout...