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Ancient DNA tells the story of the first herders and farmers in east Africa
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers from North American, European and African institutions analyzed ancient DNA from 41 human skeletons curated in the National Museums of Kenya and Tan...
Striking French workers block world's biggest Nutella plant
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
The stoppage has hit the Villers-Ecalles factory of privately-owned Italian confectionery giant Ferrero, which normally churns out 600,000 jars per day of the c...
North Korea swine flu outbreak puts South on edge
Jun 01, 2019 (AFP)
An outbreak of African swine fever that has cut swathes through China, Vietnam and Mongolia has spread to the isolated country, sparking worries that sick anima...
You can have your plate and eat it too, says Polish inventor
Jun 01, 2019 (AFP)
"A pork chop will always be more delicious on this wheat bran plate than on plastic," says Wysocki with a big grin at the Biotrem factory in Zambrow in northeas...
Tradition meets tech as Kenya's herders adapt to climate change
May 24, 2019 (AFP)
But such divination has been rendered hopeless by intensifying droughts. Days on foot can reveal nothing more than bone-dry riverbeds and grazing land baked to ...
Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers, study suggests
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
For two years, a team including University of Cambridge anthropologist Dr Mark Dyble, lived with the Agta, a population of small scale hunter-gatherers from the...
Trump unveils $16 bn aid for farmers hurt by China trade war
May 23, 2019 (AFP)
"The farmers have been attacked by China," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We're going to help out our farmers and we're giving them that level playin...
Scientists extract yeast from ancient pottery, recreate 5,000-year-old beer
May 22, 2019 (UPI)
To help them extract the long-dormant yeast, scientists recruited the help of winemakers with experience aging wine in clay pots. Archaeologists dated the clay ...
Study reports breakthrough to measure plant improvements to help farmers boost production
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
In a special issue of the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, scientists have shown a new technology can more quickly scan an entire field of plants to captu...
Swine fever sending pork prices higher
May 20, 2019 (AFP)
According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, pork prices "have begun to soar", rising by up to 50 percent both in China and on the Chicago futures ...
Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climate
May 19, 2019 (AFP)
The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools in southern Vietnam to harvest the preciou...
Outback farmers lead charge as climate heats up Aussie election
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
With one of the world's worst pollution records per capita -- and a prime minister who paraded a lump of coal through parliament -- no one would mistake Austral...
US farm lobby calls for swift end to China trade war
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
The American Farm Bureau Federation released a letter dated Tuesday to President Donald Trump saying "time is running out for many in agriculture." With farm re...
New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvest
May 14, 2019 (SPX)
"We tested various machine-learning approaches and integrated large-scale climate and satellite data to come up with a reliable and accurate prediction of wheat...
Trump says tariffs battle will help US farmers
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
China on Monday hit back against the United States, announcing it will sharply increase duties on thousands of US agricultural and manufactured goods to retalia...
Hong Kong to cull 6,000 pigs as first swine fever case found
May 11, 2019 (AFP)
"In order to minimise the risk of ASF virus spreading from the slaughterhouse, all pigs in Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse will be culled so that thorough cleansing ...
France probes alleged Monsanto lists on opinion-makers
May 11, 2019 (AFP)
Paris judicial police will carry out the probe following a complaint by the daily Le Monde and one of its journalists, whose names appear on the list, the Paris...
Cyprus's emblematic wild sheep lock horns with mountain farmers
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
With the males' distinct arched horns, the mouflon is a national symbol of Cyprus, where it has roamed for thousands of years and is protected by law. But after...
Field experiment finds a simple change that could boost agricultural productivity
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
Crop-sharing rules that assign 50% of the crop to the landlord and 50% to the tenant are common in developing countries and have often been blamed for low agric...
Climate extremes explain global crop yield variations
May 06, 2019 (SPX)
Overall, year-to-year changes in climate factors during the growing season of maize, rice, soy and spring wheat accounted for 20%-49% of yield fluctuations, acc...
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