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China prices rise as cost of food spikes

Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)

For the fourth straight month, the consumer price index (CPI) -- an important barometer of retail inflation -- rose, hitting its highest level since February, a...

Big Agriculture eyeing genetic tool for pest control

Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)

So-called "gene drives" force evolution's hand, ensuring that an engineered trait is passed down to all or most offspring, and from one generation to the next. ...

Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

The study, published in the journal Nature, is the first to quantify how food production and consumption affects the planetary boundaries that describe a safe o...

Judge mulls slashing $290 mn award in Roundup cancer case

Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)

In motions filed after the historic August verdict, Monsanto urged the judge to strip away the $250 million punitive portion of the damages, arguing that a new ...

World must slash meat consumption to save climate: study

Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)

As humanity grapples with tough choices to offset a rapidly heating planet, the research suggests that the Western world would need to slash its meat intake by ...

When yesterday's agriculture feeds today's water pollution

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

That average threshold amount is 2.1 tonnes per square kilometre of land, the researchers estimate in their study published in Nature Geoscience. "Beyond this, ...

Iran risks losing 70% of farmlands: environment chief

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

The Islamic Republic is grappling not only with air, water and soil pollution, as well as drought and desertification, but also with the effect of years of crip...

Australia farmers welcome rain relief amid severe drought

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

Eastern Australia has been suffering from an extended dry period -- in some regions stretching across several years -- leaving farmers struggling to keep their ...

Conflict and drought ravage Iraq's prized date palms

Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)

Shopping in the southern city of Basra, Leila only buys "the queen of dates" -- those produced in the surrounding province. Her husband Mehdi, 68, said the coup...

How fungi could help bees fight disease

Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)

"Colony collapse disorder" -- or massive die-offs of bees -- has caused international alarm in recent years, with experts blaming mites, viruses and pesticides ...

Illinois research accurately predicts US end-of-season corn yield

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report forecasts end-of-season yield based on real-time farm...

Farmers furious as France helicopters bear into Pyrenees

Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)

One female bear "in perfect health" was released Thursday morning, to be joined soon by a second, the environment ministry told AFP. "We saw the helicopter over...

How fruits got their eye-catching colors

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

That the bright red of a berry is a signal to hungry birds - here I am, come eat me - is not a new idea. Since the late 1800's researchers have speculated that ...

Ancient African herders had lasting ecological impact on grazed lands

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

Typically, the African savanna is scrubby, with small trees and shrubs and lots of bare soil, said University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose...

Soil health on the menu with retrieved coffee beans

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

So much mechanization, however, comes with its challenges. Tiago de Oliveira Tavares is an agronomist at Sao Paulo State University in Brazil. He and his collea...

Soil holds the secret to mitigating climate change

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

The research, led by MSU Foundation Professor Bruno Basso and published in Agriculture and Environmental Letters, is the first of its kind to provide critical i...

Down to the Kernel: NASA Space Imaging Helps Predict Crop Yields

Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)

"What distinguishes us is, we're taking the meteorological data and building models that are in some senses similar to more traditional crop forecasting models,...

Austrian fruit grower jailed over bee deaths

Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)

The 47-year-old man had spread a powerful insecticide called chlorpyrifos over his trees in the Lavanttal area of Carinthia province, at a time when their bloss...

Satellites safeguard Europe's potato industry

Sep 26, 2018 (ESA)

Europe has the highest level of potato consumption in the world at almost 90 kg per capita per year, and is the second largest potato producer globally with som...

Sunflower pollen protects bees from disease, study finds

Sep 26, 2018 (UPI)

In experiments carried out by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, scientists found bees fed sunflower p...