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Warmer climate boosts north German vineyards; Bumper harvest falls flat for Italy's Asti vineyards
Sep 21, 2025 (AFP)
The 75-year-old owner, Manfred Lindicke, said that rising global temperatures over the decades had helped his grapes sweeten and ripen earlier. "When I started ...
Floods devastate India's breadbasket of Punjab
Sep 17, 2025 (AFP)
In Punjab, often dubbed the country's granary, the damage is unprecedented: floods have swallowed farmlands almost the size of London and New York City combined...
Fruit fly tests in Greece target invasive species threat
Sep 15, 2025 (AFP)
The insects are sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata), a pest that annually causes significant damage to crops in Naousa, where a large pr...
'Last generation': Greek island's fading pistachio tradition
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
"Few pistachios," Albanian worker Daso Shpata, 47, said under a blazing sun on Greece's Aegina island, among leafy trees bearing clusters of the red fruit and a...
Global warming linked to consumption of sugary drinks, ice cream
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
Sugar is a major contributor to serious health problems such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease, yet consumption of the sweet additive has surged across the...
Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
A new global study led by the University of British Columbia shows that hotter and drier conditions are making food production more volatile, with crop yields s...
China to impose temporary duties on EU pork
Sep 05, 2025 (AFP)
The two sides have navigated a challenging relationship in recent years, complicated greatly by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Chinese authorities launched ...
USDA backs FAU led FogAg platform to advance precision farming
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The project unites Florida Atlantic University, Kansas State University and Purdue University to develop FogAg, an edge and fog computing framework that deliver...
Frost, hail, heat sour season for Turkey's lemon growers
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
"Then we were hit by a heatwave and the sun was so intense that it literally boiled the fruit, killing it," says the 42-year-old, describing a string of extreme...
In oil-rich Oman, efforts to preserve frankincense 'white gold'
Sep 01, 2025 (AFP)
Located in Oman's southern Dhofar region, bordering Yemen, the valley is the world's largest such reserve, home to around 5,000 frankincense trees that dot the ...
'Cocktail' of bacteria, fungi makes the perfect chocolate, study finds
Aug 28, 2025 (UPI)
The study, published in Nature Microbiology earlier this month, found that bacteria and fungi are responsible for the aromas and nuances that distinguish fine c...
Brazil court restores Amazon-protecting soy moratorium
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
A federal judge overturned the decision by Brazil's competition regulator, Cade, to scrap the two-decade-old pact credited with slowing deforestation. Cade had ...
'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they fe...
Egyptian farmers behind world's perfumes face climate fight alone
Aug 25, 2025 (AFP)
For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, ...
Agriculture spread via coexistence and gradual mixing; deep roots of the Anthropocene revealed
Aug 21, 2025 (SPX)
Nearly 9,000 years ago, farming communities from the Aegean and western Anatolia began advancing into Europe, bringing agriculture northward to present-day Germ...
Nestle unveils method to boost cocoa yields as climate change hits
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
Faced with climate change diminishing farmers' yields, Nestle announced Wednesday that it was working on a technique to produce chocolate by using up to 30 perc...
China extends anti-subsidy probe into EU dairy products
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
China on Monday extended its anti-subsidy investigation into European Union dairy imports, another blow in an ongoing trade row between the two giant economies....
China charts high yield low input pathway for staple crops
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
By 2022, combined rice, wheat, and corn output was 58 percent higher than in 2000, driven primarily by yield growth with only an 8.6 percent expansion in plante...
Cornell researchers explore alternatives to harmful insecticide
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
"We wanted to find other options for growers to protect their vegetable crops from major pests. The impetus was to identify new products including those in the ...
Global food system reforms urged to reverse land degradation and climate threats
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Fernando T. Maestre of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology described the plan as a "bold, integrated set of actions" to tackle intert...
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