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Thousands protest in Martinique against insecticide 'impunity'

Feb 28, 2021 (AFP)

The chemical, chlordecone, was widely used between 1972 and 1993 to protect banana plantations from insects in Martinique and neighbouring Guadeloupe, also a Fr...

Colombia's apiarists say avocado buzz is killing bees

Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)

Urrego has no proof, but he suspects the culprit is pesticides which have been fuelling a commercial avocado and citrus boom in the country. Hundreds of hives h...

Beyond Meat signs long-term agreements with McDonald's, KFC parent

Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)

The "strategic" agreements will cover a three-year period for McDonald's and "the next several years" for Yum! Brands, according to two separate statements from...

Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

Products manufactured using carbon nanotubes include rebar for concrete, sporting goods, wind turbines, and lithium batteries, among others. Potential uses of c...

Reed harvest in snowy Poland

Feb 23, 2021 (AFP)

"We've been making reed roofs since the dawn of time," said Ryszard Zagalski, owner of a reed farm in the northern village of Jagodno, near the city of Elblag. ...

Three technologies poised to change food and the planet

Feb 19, 2021 (The Conversation)

COVID-19 has also exposed weaknesses with current food systems. Agricultural scientists have known for decades that farm labour can be exploitative and hard, so...

Corn belt farmland has lost a third of its carbon-rich soil

Feb 16, 2021 (SPX)

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by UMass Amherst graduate student Evan Thaler, along with professor...

Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest

Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)

Pilot Kieran Allen begins his painstaking survey from zebra-filled plains and lush maize farms, to dramatic forested valleys and the vast arid expanses further ...

Ancient Amazonian farmers fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

These Amazonian Dark Earths, or Terra Preta, were created through burning, mulching, and the deposition of organic waste. It was known that some communities bui...

Hive thinking: Beekeeping makes a buzz in Ivory Coast

Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)

The art of beekeeping has spread swiftly in Assounvoue, in the heart of the world's top cocoa producer. Farmers started taking up honey-making to supplement the...

Improving photosynthesis: our best bet to create a food secure world

Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)

Currently, Australia exports and produces more food than it consumes, but this could change drastically, if we don't build crop resilience to deal with the cons...

Pepsi, Beyond Meat cook up snack partnership

Jan 26, 2021 (AFP)

The companies said they are forming a joint venture called "The Planet Partnership" to create and market drinks and snacks made from plant-based proteins, which...

Making protein 'superfood' from marine algae

Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers at Flinders University's Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development (CMBD) in Australia are responding to growing interest from consumers looking for...

Small farmers 'need more climate aid to ward off famines': UN

Jan 23, 2021 (AFP)

Small farmers "do little to cause climate change, but suffer the most from its impacts," Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultura...

Canadian researchers create new form of cultivated meat

Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers Ravi Selvaganapathy and Alireza Shahin-Shamsabadi, both of the university's School of Biomedical Engineering, have devised a way to make meat by sta...

Brazilian ant farm yields new antifungal compound

Jan 20, 2021 (UPI)

The the new molecule, attinimicin, described Wednesday in the journal ACS Central Science, is structurally too complex to serve as a useful drug model. Scientis...

In Iraq, a new epidemic -- bird flu -- decimates chicken coops

Jan 18, 2021 (AFP)

Near the town of Samarra, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Haytham al-Hamash's coops have become graveyards. Masked workers step around a few l...

Nations failing to fund climate adaptation: UN

Jan 17, 2021 (AFP)

Adaptation -- reducing the fallout among communities and increasing their capacity to deal with climate-related disasters such as floods and drought -- is a pil...

US to seize all Xinjiang tomato, cotton imports

Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)

CBP issued a "withhold release order" on those imports "based on information that reasonably indicates the use of detainee or prison labor and situations of for...

Campaigners hail Mexican ban on genetically modified corn

Jan 07, 2021 (AFP)

Imports of genetically modified maize will also be gradually prohibited over the next three years, along with the use of glyphosate, an herbicide described by t...