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Heavy rains kill 19 in Niger as locust swarm threatens
Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)
Of the 19 believed killed by the rains, 10 died by drowning and nine when homes collapsed, Niger's interior ministry said in a statement. Disaster management of...
Intensive farming heightens pandemic risk: study
Aug 05, 2020 (AFP)
Writing in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from University College London warned that animal pathogens are increasingly likely to make the leap to hum...
Grooming behavior reveals complex social networks among dairy cows
Aug 04, 2020 (UPI)
Social grooming among animals is called allogrooming. Among bovine, allogrooming typically involves one cow licking the head and neck of another. Researchers es...
Plague to protein: Israeli firm seeks to put locusts on the menu
Aug 03, 2020 (AFP)
As for whether or not the insects are kosher, the answer is not so simple. At Hargol Foodtech's farm in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a rectangular enclos...
Post-pandemic brave new world of agriculture
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
University of Queensland Professor Robert Henry said the technologies had all been in various stages of planning prior to COVID-19, but food producers would now...
Report provides new framework for understanding climate risks, impacts to US agriculture
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on how agricultural systems are impacted by climate change and offers a list of 20 indicators that ...
China's Hengduan Mountains host some of the oldest flower lineages
Jul 30, 2020 (UPI)
The Hengduan Mountains, located in southwest China, began forming roughly 30 million years ago. New research, published Thursday in the journal Science, suggest...
COVID-19 pandemic threatens global food security, researchers say
Jul 30, 2020 (UPI)
New research suggests the global economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has imperiled all four. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Science,...
Hit by virus and drought, rural Moroccans tighten belts for Eid
Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)
But snap domestic travel restrictions imposed by the North African country's authorities on Sunday after a surge in new infections has cast a pall over trade ah...
Philippines: deadliest country in Asia for land defenders
Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)
A total of 43 defenders were killed in the archipelago -- the vast majority on the fertile and resource-rich islands of Mindanao and Negros -- compared with 30 ...
Wild bee decline threatens major US crops: study
Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)
The study, which had funding from the United States Department of Agriculture, comes as evidence of steep drops in insect populations worldwide prompts fears of...
Vertical farms ready for take-off
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
The interdisciplinary study combining biology and engineering sets down steps towards accelerating the growth of this branch of precision agriculture, including...
Report links world's top meat firm to deforestation
Jul 27, 2020 (AFP)
The charge, leveled in a report by an investigative journalism consortium, marks at least the fifth time in just over a year that the company, which exports aro...
Revealing Brazil's rotten agribusinesses
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
Unveiling these "bad apples" among soy and beef producers, but also revealing that a vast majority - some 80% of the country's farmers - abide by the Forest Cod...
Breeding new rice varieties will help farmers in Asia
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
Some farmers want to have more time to prepare for the next season crop, whereas other farmers are concerned about irrigation water running out during the dry s...
Clear strategies needed to reduce bushmeat hunting
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
However, millions of people, especially in the Global South, depend on wild meat ("bushmeat") for their livelihoods. Hunting and consuming wild meat is a vital ...
The uphill struggle on the terraces of Amalfi's lemon growers
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
"My father always tells me that we might not have blood in our veins but lemon juice," laughs sixth-generation lemon farmer Salvatore Aceto, 56. "It could be tr...
Bayer loses appeal in California Roundup cancer verdict
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
The case before the California Court of Appeals concerned Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, a school groundskeeper and heavy user of Roundup who sued Monsanto -- a subsidi...
Brazil exports to EU produced on illegally cleared land: report
Jul 16, 2020 (AFP)
The news comes amid fierce resistance by some European countries to the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur -- made up of ...
G20 carbon 'food-print' highest in meat-loving nations: report
Jul 16, 2020 (AFP)
Among the world's top economies, only the per capita carbon "food-prints" in India and Indonesia are low enough to ensure the Paris climate target of capping gl...
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