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Ecological land grab: food vs fuel vs forests
Aug 05, 2019 (AFP)
Coping with each of these problems will require a different way of using of Earth's lands, and as experts crunch the numbers it is becoming unnervingly clear th...
Humanity's next test: feed 10 billion without ruining Earth
Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) special report on land use is expected to warn how industrialised food chains, rampant resource exploitati...
Buzz kill: mass bee deaths sting Russian beekeepers
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
Rubtsov, who keeps a large honeybee farm on the edge of a small village in the Tula region south of Moscow, is one of hundreds of beekeepers across Russia to re...
China says has begun purchase of more US farm goods
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
US farm exports to China are estimated to be the lowest in years as a result of Beijing's retaliation against President Donald Trump's tariffs on $250 billion o...
To conserve water, Indian farmers fire up air pollution
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
A new study reveals how water-use policies require farmers to transplant rice later in the year, which in turn delays harvests and concentrates agricultural bur...
Overturning the truth on conservation tillage
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
Similar to our kitchen cupboard with a blender, mixer, and beater, farmers have access to a variety of tillage equipment. Farmers choose the "right" piece of ti...
Solar panels cast shade on agriculture in a good way
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
Greg Barron-Gafford, associate professor at the University of Arizona, shows that combining these two systems - solar panel (photovoltaic) infrastructure and ag...
Trump uncorks French wine threat in digital tax retaliation
Jul 27, 2019 (AFP)
"France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies," Trump tweeted about the law, which targets US giants like Google, Apple, Facebook an...
Microbial manufacturing: Genetic engineering breakthrough for urban farming
Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)
Explained in a paper titled "A standard for near-scarless plasmid construction using reusable DNA parts", which will be published this month in the prestigious ...
ORNL scientists make fundamental discovery to creating better crops
Jul 24, 2019 (SPX)
The discovery could lead to the development of bioenergy and food crops that can withstand harsh growing conditions, resist pathogens and pests, require less ch...
Lavender back in fashion with French farmers
Jul 21, 2019 (AFP)
"They are slightly grey because they are starting to wilt, it is the best point for the quantity and quality of essential oils," explains Vincent Jamonet who ru...
China importers seek to lift tariffs on US farm goods: state media
Jul 21, 2019 (AFP)
The unnamed importers were talking to US suppliers about potential pricing and have applied to a Chinese government body with oversight of tariffs to lift the l...
Swine fever sends China's pork prices, imports soaring
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
More than 1.1 million pigs have been killed or culled so far as authorities scramble to contain a virus that has spread to neighbouring countries since the firs...
US judge slashes jury award in Roundup cancer case
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria denied a request by Monsanto for a new trial, but ruled that the $75 million in punitive damages was "constitutionally im...
Study: Global farming trends threaten food security
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
At the same time, many of the crops being grown rely on pollination by insects and other animals. This puts food security at increased risk, as a team of resear...
Indonesia president vows to fight EU palm oil rules
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
Brussels wants to limit the materials that can be used in fuel that is counted towards its renewable energy targets. It has set a 2030 limit for phasing out pal...
China fails to buy agricultural goods as promised: Trump
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
The president's latest salvo on Twitter comes the same week that US and Chinese trade officials had their first contact in months in an effort to revive negotia...
Insecticides that threaten bees also harm damselflies, study finds
Jul 05, 2019 (UPI)
When researchers first began testing the efficacy and safety of neonicotinoids, insecticides synthetically derived from nicotine, they determined the chemicals ...
China says pork production recovering as swine fever cases decline
Jul 04, 2019 (AFP)
The virus -- fatal to wild boar and pigs but harmless to humans -- has cut a swathe through Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea and China. The world's top pork produ...
Lithuania declares emergency as drought hits farmers
Jul 03, 2019 (AFP)
Apart from jeopardising crops, scant rainfall has also drastically reduced water levels in some rivers, threatening fish stocks and shipping activities. The for...
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