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Canada says 'disappointed' at new China canola duties
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
Economic and political ties between Beijing and Ottawa have soured in recent years, with agricultural products often bearing the burden. China's commerce minist...
Organic molecules help soil store water even in desertlike conditions
Aug 13, 2025 (SPX)
The team found that carbohydrates from plants and microbes act like molecular glue, forming sticky bridges between organic compounds and soil minerals that trap...
France adopts law upholding ban on controversial insecticide
Aug 12, 2025 (AFP)
The legislation has been at the heart of a major debate in France and sparked a petition that was wildly successful, racking up an unprecedented 2.1 million sig...
Nigerian scientists await return of Egusi seeds sent to space
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
Space in Africa, the Lagos-based firm Oniosun founded, is expecting its Egusi melon seeds to splash down in the Pacific Ocean Saturday -- fresh from a trip to t...
France strikes down return of banned bee-killing pesticide
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
The decision infuriated farmers and France's far right and conservative parties but was welcome by environmentalists and left-wing parties. The law would have p...
China says extends probe into beef imports
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
The price of beef in China has trended downwards in recent years, with analysts blaming oversupply and a lack of demand as the world's second largest economy ha...
Israel culls more than 200 crocodiles at West Bank farm
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
The Nile crocodiles "were being kept in an abandoned compound under poor conditions that constitute animal abuse, with insufficient access to food, which had dr...
'Human presence': French volunteers protect sheep from wolves
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
The two Bretons are volunteers who signed up to protect the flock belonging to farmer Nathalie Welker in the Drome Provencal, in France's southeast, from wolf a...
Potato traces its ancient roots to tomato hybridization
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Cell, the study reveals that this interbreeding introduced critical genetic material enabling the formation of tubers-specialized underground struc...
Liverwort gene discovery reveals ancient mechanism behind plant reproductive growth
Aug 01, 2025 (SPX)
Plant geneticist Kimitsune Ishizaki has spent the last decade establishing tools to manipulate the liverwort genome, citing its rapid regrowth as a reason for i...
French health experts speak out against bee-killing pesticide
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
The legislation to reintroduce in France acetamiprid, a pesticide that is harmful to ecosystems but popular with many farmers in Europe, was adopted on July 8, ...
Iconic French chef stakes reputation on vegan menu
Jul 28, 2025 (AFP)
The 68-year-old has become the first three Michelin star chef in France to switch to an entirely plant-based menu, opening a new chapter in the world of luxury ...
New Zealand farmers battle pine forests to 'save our sheep'
Jul 27, 2025 (AFP)
Concern over the scale of the farm-to-forest switch led the government to impose a moratorium in December on any new conversions not already in the pipeline. Bu...
Cognac maker Remy Cointreau lifts guidance after China deal
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
The group, which makes Remy Martin and Louis XIII cognac as well as Cointreau orange liqueur, now targets a mid-to-high-single-digits decline in adjusted operat...
French anger over bee-killing pesticide piles pressure on Macron
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
On July 10, a 23-year-old master's student launched a petition urging the French government to drop legislation allowing the reintroduction of acetamiprid, a pe...
'Garden of Eden': Albania eyes up growing exotic fruit for Europe
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
Veteran agronomist Irakli Shkoza's small farm not far from sea in central Albania is a kind of Garden of Eden in the Adriatic sun. With temperatures rising ever...
French petition against return of bee-killing pesticide passes 1mn
Jul 20, 2025 (AFP)
The so-called "Duplomb law" has stirred public anger for permitting a return of acetamiprid -- a chemical known to be toxic to pollinators such as bees and to e...
Tajikistan's apricot farmers grapple with climate change
Jul 16, 2025 (AFP)
This is one of the world's most exposed regions to the effects of climate change and its poor, rural farming communities are particularly vulnerable. Kuziev is ...
Ivory Coast farmers hope tech tempts jaded youth back to fields
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
With each team facing off to draw up the best bot blueprint, the competition is part of a broader push to tempt the west African nation's large population of yo...
Drought-hit Serbian raspberry farmers fear 'catastrophic' future
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
Under the scorching sun, pickers move through parched raspberry fields in search of the few fruits that have not shrivelled to a pea. The dry spell started six ...
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