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The three cheetah cubs roll around in the grass, totally involved in their game, the two males wanting to play with the wooden log their little sister has snatched away from them. "They had a bad start in life as their heavily pregnant mother was shot," said Leigh Whelpton, a volunteer at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. "The farmer who killed it, noticed movement in the ... read more 
Paris (AFP) June 17, 2009By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa's farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent's precarious food security, warns a new study. Growing seasons throughout nearly all of Africa in 2050 will likely be "hotter than any year in historical experience," reports the study, published in the current issue of the British-based journal Global ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2009No human is a clone of their parents but the same cannot be said for other living things. While your DNA is a combination of half your mother and half your father, other species do things differently. The advantage of clonal reproduction is that it produces an individual exactly like an existing one-which would be very useful for farmers who could replicate the best of their animals or crops ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jun 16, 2009 Beijing achieved and largely exceeded drinking-water and waste-management goals it set as part of its bid for last summer's Olympics, a report indicates. China's capital treated nearly 92 percent of its wastewater during the 2008 Games thanks to a major expansion of its treatment facilities. "Beijing prepared impressively in these areas for the Olympic Games. In the end, the city ... more 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2009Trimble has announced it has acquired privately-held NTech Industries based in Ukiah, Calif. NTech is a leading provider of crop-sensing technology that allows farmers to reduce costs and environmental impact by controlling the application of nitrogen, herbicide and other crop inputs. The acquisition further expands Trimble's ability to offer innovative field applications for farmers. ... more 
Beijing (AFP) June 17, 2009Climate change hits China's poor the hardest and also forces some of those lifted out of hardship back into it, activist groups Greenpeace and Oxfam said Wednesday. The two urged the Chinese government to review its existing poverty alleviation policy to take climate change into account, in a report compiled with experts from the nation's Academy of Agricultural Sciences. "Climate change ... more |
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Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Jun 16, 2009A new study by researchers from the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the United Kingdom's Waen Associates has found that by 2050, hotter conditions, coupled with shifting rainfall patterns, could make anywhere from 500,000 to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland no longer able to support even a subsistence level of food crops. ... more 
Vancouver, Canada (AFP) June 15, 2009The succulent braised rabbit served up at Raincity Grill comes garnished with a mound of curled wild lettuce, harvested from the mountains surrounding Vancouver. In fact, the rabbit itself -- and nearly every other menu item at this trendy beachside restaurant -- is from a nearby farm or producers' market. This west coast Canadian city is a mecca for so-called "locavores" who eat ... more 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 16, 2009SPIN-Farming together with NewSeed Advisors is co-hosting Agriculture 2.0, The Conference for Innovators and Investors, on September 17 at the Marriott Financial Center in New York City, to introduce a select group of alternative agriculture entrepreneurs to the investment community. Roxanne Christensen, co-author of the SPIN-Farming online learning series, says SPIN-Farming has inspired ... more 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jun 16, 2009At times in the distant past, an abrupt change in climate has been associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, a new study concludes, causing more rain to fall over the oceans than in the Earth's tropical regions, and leading to a dramatic drop in global vegetation growth. If similar changes were to happen to the Earth's climate today as a result of global warming - as ... more |
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