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Halving food waste can reduce hunger for 153 mn people: report
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
Around a third of food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted globally, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization -- resulting in useless e...
'Stress test': Olive oil producers adapt to climate change
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
"Climate change is already a reality and we need to adapt to it," according to the executive director of the International Olive Council (IOC) Jaime Lillo. He s...
Uzbekistan tries to put fresh spin on its silk industry
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
With her expert fingers honed by 40 years of labour, Pardayeva delicately removed the white silkworm cocoons from bushy dried mulberry branches. Each contains a...
The herders caught in India and China's icy conflict
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
That stopped in 2020, after troops from nuclear-armed rivals India and China clashed in bitter hand-to-hand combat in the contested high-altitude border lands o...
Algerian women pioneer eco-friendly farming
Jun 23, 2024 (AFP)
After graduating from university four years ago, they left the capital and started working on the small patch of land in Douaouda, some 30 kilometres (18 miles)...
S.Africa to dish up more zebra to boost jobs and conservation
Jun 23, 2024 (AFP)
The abattoir in Bela Bela, north of Johannesburg, is among only a handful in the country dedicated to game meat. Authorities say the untapped sector could creat...
Central China farmers face crop failures in 'withering' drought
Jun 19, 2024 (AFP)
"Everything is dry," he said as he strode along the perimeter of a rice paddy near his home in Hudian, a humble township in the central Chinese province of Hena...
Scottish farmers damn wild beaver reintroduction policy
Jun 19, 2024 (AFP)
Beavers are "ecosystem engineers", whose activities can alleviate flooding, improve water quality and boost wildlife. But the visitors' delight is not shared by...
China says launches anti-dumping probe into EU pork imports
Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)
"The Ministry of Commerce has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imports of relevant pork and pig by-products originating from the European Union," the m...
China launches anti-dumping probe into EU pork imports
Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)
Pork is China's most popular meat and a staple of diets in the world's second most populous nation. Imports of pork and pork by-products from EU nations totalle...
Albania's shepherds race to save sheep from crushing heatwave
Jun 15, 2024 (AFP)
In the Dukat plain, which runs from the Ceraunian (Thunderbolt) Mountains to the Adriatic Sea, temperatures are already reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenh...
North Macedonia's beekeepers face climate change challenge
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
She has been producing honey in this picturesque corner of the country for more than 20 years. But climate change and disease have made what used to be a simple...
New Zealand scraps plan to tax livestock burps, farts
Jun 11, 2024 (AFP)
New legislation will be introduced to parliament this month to remove the agriculture sector from a new emissions pricing plan, it said. "The government is comm...
Compact Crop-Health Sensors Aim to Reduce Grocery Costs
Jun 07, 2024 (SPX)
This innovation might lead to cheaper groceries by allowing farmers to identify specific crop needs for irrigation, fertilization, and pest control, potentially...
Greenhouse cultivation rapidly expanding in low- and middle-income countries
Jun 05, 2024 (SPX)
A study from the University of Copenhagen reveals that greenhouse cultivation is expanding quickly worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Th...
Vietnam's coffee trees stunted by drought, heat and pests
Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian country is the world's leading supplier of robusta, a bean used in Nescafe and other instant brands. The 2024-25 crop of coffee beans, for w...
Hunting for edible plants with London's urban foragers
Jun 02, 2024 (AFP)
The city skyline is visible in the distance from among the gravestones, where the dead were laid to rest for more than 100 years from 1841 to 1966. But the main...
Bezos Earth Fund awards $30M to N.C. State to research sustainable proteins
May 31, 2024 (UPI)
The goal of the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein is to be a biomanufacturing hub for alternative protein sources that are "environmentally friendly, healthy...
Revived reservoir a lifeline for Syria farmers
May 31, 2024 (AFP)
Water from the Bala reservoir is once again flowing to a fertile plain in the Idlib area, home to several million people, many of them displaced during the coun...
Pakistan farmers pin poor mango crop on climate change
May 31, 2024 (AFP)
A white and orange scarf wrapped around his head in the scorching heat, farmer Muhammad Yusuf lamented the erratic weather. An abnormally long winter was follow...
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