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'Hybrid' US sheep breeder used endangered genetic material, faces jail
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
Arthur Schubarth, 80, illegally imported parts of the world's largest species of sheep from Kyrgyzstan, which he used to create cloned embryos in the United Sta...
Dozens of Cambodians charged in land dispute: activist
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
The villagers were arrested last week when police, gendarmes and forestry officials moved to evict people from the land in northwestern Preah Vihear province, A...
Unraveling the secrets of plant evolution: how 125 million years shaped today's crops
Mar 11, 2024 (SPX)
Led by CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Zachary Lippman, the team uncovered that tomato and Arabidopsis thaliana plants can regulate the same gene in vastly...
Planet beefs up AgData with launch of Field Boundary detection technology
Mar 08, 2024 (SPX)
Field Boundaries aims to revolutionize the infrastructure for agricultural solutions by offering unparalleled precision in regional crop monitoring and yield pr...
El Nino raises food security risk in southern Africa: FAO
Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)
Major growing areas in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe received only 80 percent of average rainfall during the mid-November-to-February summer ...
Spekboom bushes protect earth but can they cool Earth
Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)
The 62-year-old Afrikaner is an evangelist for Portulacaria afra, a red-stemmed bush or small tree with thick, dense green leaves that acts as a sponge for carb...
Birds, beetles, bugs could help replace pesticides: study
Mar 06, 2024 (AFP)
Pests are responsible for around 10 percent -- or 21 million tonnes -- of crop losses every year, but controlling them has lead to the widespread use of chemica...
New York's new composting plan is ambitious - but controversial
Mar 06, 2024 (AFP)
John Surico, a resident of the Queens borough, started separating his food scraps seven years ago. At the time, he carried his organic waste -- which he stored ...
WTO panel rules in EU's favour in Malaysia palm oil dispute
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
The World Trade Organization ruling has been three years in the making after Malaysia, the world's second-largest producer of palm oil after Indonesia, initiate...
Vietnam's 'rice bowl' cracks in monster heatwave
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
Several areas of the delta are also suffering drought and farmers are struggling to transport their crops due to low water levels in the region's canals. The in...
Australia sees China wine tariffs lifted within weeks
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
Don Farrell said after talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Abu Dhabi that Beijing would conclude a review of tariffs -- imposed four years ago when re...
EU parliament backs contested biodiversity bill
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
The rules are a central part of the EU's ambitious environmental goals under the Green Deal -- a set of laws aimed at helping the bloc meet its climate goals --...
Costa Rica coffee farmers innovate as rainfall plummets
Feb 27, 2024 (AFP)
The country's lush Central Valley has long boasted the ideal climate conditions for growing the arabica coffee beans, its most emblematic export -- but farmers ...
2 million animals dead as extreme winter weather hits Mongolia
Feb 26, 2024 (AFP)
The landlocked country is no stranger to severe weather from December to March, when temperatures plummet as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenhei...
New farmer show of force as EU ministers vow to target red tape
Feb 26, 2024 (AFP)
An estimated 900 tractors brought the city's European quarter to a halt for the second time in a month as farmers lit fireworks, burned tyres, hurled eggs and s...
Livestock insurance offers hope to drought-hit Somalis
Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)
Since her father's death in 2010, the 34-year-old has taken on the responsibility of looking after her unwell mother as well as her own two children in Somalia'...
MIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field
Feb 21, 2024 (SPX)
Now, MIT engineers have developed a method to quickly and accurately label and map crop types without requiring in-person assessments of every single farm. The ...
EU CO2 rules boost farmers, annoy environment activists
Feb 20, 2024 (AFP)
EU lawmakers and negotiators from the 27 member states struck a deal on a voluntary system intended to boost different types of carbon removal across the bloc -...
Natural pesticides gain ground in 'agri-tox' capital Brazil
Feb 19, 2024 (AFP)
Agricultural powerhouse Brazil may be the world leader in chemical pesticide use, but Cruvinel is part of a growing trend of farmers turning to natural products...
China agrees to lift ban on Spanish beef imports
Feb 18, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing has since 2000 imposed a ban on the European Union from exporting beef products due to the emergence of several cases of bovine spongiform encephalopath...
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