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Cable bacteria dramatically curb methane emissions from rice cultivation

Apr 20, 2020 (UPI)

The research, published Monday in the journal Nature Communications, could help rice farmers limit the effects of the world's most popular grain on the climate....

Declining snowmelt threatens farmers in the western U.S.

Apr 20, 2020 (UPI)

For the new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists looked at drainage basins that are heavily reliant on snowmelt runoff and f...

Crops rot as Italian farmers hit by virus, drought

Apr 20, 2020 (AFP)

Italian farmers are being brought to their knees by a six-week lockdown aimed at stopping a deadly epidemic in its tracks. They are also suffering a drought cau...

Hungry, jobless Americans turning to food banks to survive pandemic

Apr 19, 2020 (AFP)

And with 22 million people out of work seemingly overnight as business after business closes under the Great Lockdown, these charities feeding hungry and scared...

Trump announces $19 bn relief for farmers amid COVID-19 epidemic

Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)

Trump told a press conference the government "will be implementing a $19 billion relief program for our great farmers and ranchers as they cope with the fallout...

For most of the world, it's impossible to 'eat local'

Apr 17, 2020 (UPI)

Over the last century, food production has become globalized and commercialized. The revolutionary changes have increased food availability around the world, bu...

How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia's second-most-important cash crop?

Apr 17, 2020 (SPX)

The hardy crop that Europeans brought from Latin America many centuries before was a dependable source of nutrition - as long as it was skillfully processed to ...

Sen4CAP - new solution on CREODIAS EU to support satellite crop monitoring

Apr 17, 2020 (SPX)

As part of its development policy, the European Union supports individual market sectors. In the case of agriculture, this support includes ensuring access to s...

Wuhan's 'wet markets' struggle after virus lockdown

Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)

China's "wet markets" have been slammed internationally as the coronavirus roils the world, with the disease having seemingly emerged from stalls selling live g...

Digitalisation in agriculture - field testing DLR technologies

Apr 15, 2020 (SPX)

"The focus is primarily on testing technologies for applications that can assist farmers to estimate crop yield, identify areas with lower yields, and assess so...

Turned-down temperatures boost crops' penchant for production

Apr 15, 2020 (SPX)

In a recent U.S.-based study, a research team led by University of Illinois scientists discovered 16% of the yield increase from irrigation is attributable to c...

Earliest humans in the Amazon created thousands of 'forest islands' as they tamed wild plants

Apr 13, 2020 (SPX)

This led to the creation of 4,700 of the forest islands in what is now Llanos de Moxos in northern Bolivia, the team has found. This savannah area floods from D...

Rights group welcomes draft rules that could end China dog meat trade

Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)

China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs published a list of animals that can be traded for meat Wednesday that included pigs, cows, chickens and sheep...

Amazonian crop domestication began at least 10,000 years ago

Apr 08, 2020 (UPI)

Around the same time, during the early Holocene Epoch, humans began cultivating crops for the first time in different parts of the world. In China, people culti...

Societal transformations and resilience in Arabia across 12,000 years of climate change

Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)

In the current study, archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, conduct the first detailed comparison of h...

Invasive Asian hornet could cost Europe millions in damages

Apr 06, 2020 (UPI)

In a new study, published this week in the journal NeoBiota, scientists estimated the cost of damages caused by the invasive hornet, as well as the price of nec...

Virus sparks boom for local farmers in import-dependent Hong Kong

Apr 06, 2020 (AFP)

COVID-19 has threatened global supply chains as countries impose lockdowns and border restrictions, but for Hong Kong's dwindling farming community, the pandemi...

Could Satellites Help Head Off a Locust Invasion?

Mar 31, 2020 (SPX)

Since December 2019, croplands in Kenya have been inundated by the voracious insects. By January 2020, at least 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) of land were inf...

Wuhan's virus ground-zero market hides in plain sight

Mar 30, 2020 (AFP)

But there are ample clues that something toxic once lurked inside the Huanan Seafood Market -- police tape, chest-high red barriers, and staff in head-to-toe wh...

Instacart gig workers threaten walkoff over virus safety

Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)

The threat came Friday as Instacart announced new health and safety measures including bonuses for in-store shopping and providing two weeks pay to hourly emplo...