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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...
Brazil farmers bet on environmentally friendly cotton
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The alabaster plants interspersed with the corn and soybean fields outside the central-western town are part of a silent revolution in Brazil: facing negative a...
Extreme heat, price hikes impose tough choices on UK farm
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
Record-breaking temperatures -- as well as skyrocketing energy prices -- mean the UK farm that he manages has had to make difficult decisions about which crops ...
On the menu at a UK restaurant: carbon footprintl
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
The carrot and beetroot pakora with yoghurt sauce is responsible for just 16 grams of CO2 emissions. The aubergines with a miso and harissa sauce with tabbouleh...
Two more grain shipments leave Ukrain
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
"Two ships left the port of Chornomorsk carrying a total of 70,000 tons of agricultural products," the infrastructure ministry said in a statement on social med...
More Ukraine grain sets sail as new strike hits nuclear site
Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)
Odessa regional authorities, meanwhile, announced that another two grain shipments were due to leave on Monday. Kyiv's infrastructure ministry wrote on Telegram...
Dutch farmer protests reap populist support
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
"We take all the support that we can get," says Jaap Kok, a 62-year-old cattle farmer standing in a meadow full of cows near Barneveld in the central Netherland...
Driest July in memory imperils Europe's crops
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
The European Commission on Wednesday urged EU member states to re-use treated urban wastewater as irrigation on the continent's parched farms, after France and ...
UK's Waitrose to scrap 'best before' date on fresh products
Aug 01, 2022 (AFP)
"Best before" dates tells customers food is at its optimal before this date, but is still fine to eat for a time afterwards. From September the upmarket chain w...
Yemen's ancient honey production a victim of war, climate change
Jul 30, 2022 (AFP)
The business, handed down from father to son, "is slowly disappearing", Saif told AFP. "The bees are being hit by strange phenomenons. Is it due to climate chan...
Dutch PM slams 'life-threatening' farmer protests
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
Angry farmers have resumed their protests after a break of several weeks, demanding an end to government plans to cut nitrogen emissions by reducing livestock a...
Drought threatens Spain's 'green gold' harvest
Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)
"There are no olives on these. Everything is dry," the 68-year-old said. He and his son own a 100-hectare (250-acre) olive farm in the southern province of Jaen...
Straightening out kinky roots captures carbon and avoids drought stress
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
"The angle at which barley roots grow down into the soil enables them to capture water and nutrients from different soil layers," said Dr Haoyu (Mia) Lou from t...
Designing roots to reach new depths could help carbon storage in soil
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Bologna have discovered a key gene in barley and wheat that controls the angle of root growth. Steeper root an...
Sustainable practices linked to farm size in organic farming
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
"We wanted to look at how the practices differ between small-scale organic farms like the ones you see scattered around the Finger Lakes, which may serve the lo...
Turf wars stall Ireland's green agenda
Jul 24, 2022 (AFP)
The briquettes of peat, which are liquorice black when hewn wet from the ground, had turned a toasted brown in the soaring July temperatures and were ready to b...
Italy's famous Po Valley rice paddies decimated by drought
Jul 23, 2022 (AFP)
His fields are nothing but desolation, with rice stems slowly dying in the sandy ground. "Under normal circumstances, I would never have been able to ride my mo...
Dutch commune 'returns land to the people'
Jul 21, 2022 (AFP)
Welcome to Oosterwold in the Netherlands, a commune where so long as you follow certain rules, including dedicating at least half your land to farming, you can ...
India's mango man, father of 300 varieties
Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)
His footsteps quicken as he draws nearer and his eyes light up as he peers closely at the branches through his spectacles, caressing the leaves and sniffing the...
French farms use huge fans to keep dairy cows cool
Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)
Despite sitting at an altitude of 780 metres (2,600 feet), the mercury has climbed to 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) at Nicolas Joannon's farm nestled in th...
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