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Dutch farmers protest livestock cuts to curb nitrogen
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
In one of their largest-ever demonstrations, the farmers demanded the scrapping of recently announced plans by the Hague-based government, which could see a 30-...
EU lays out plan to halve pesticide use, save bees
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
The proposals -- which have faced opposition from some disgruntled EU nations -- are part of the bloc's ambitious environmental push as it seeks to make agricul...
Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
The groundbreaking study was led by Dr. Dafna Langgut of the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and the Steinhardt Museu...
South Africa's latest hot export to China? Donkeys
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
Once prized by emperors, a gelatin called ejiao -- made from donkey skins -- is increasingly sought after by China's middle class. The health benefits are belie...
Saving paradise: Why we must protect global lands now
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
Achieving this target at the global level will require most countries to rapidly expand their protected area network. A team of researchers at the Princeton Sch...
How coffee is saving a unique Mozambican forest
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
The slopes of this Mozambican landmark were once covered with verdant rain forest. Now, they are scarred by deep holes -- the result of clearcutting that expose...
Keeping China fed as inflation surges brings risk for commodity prices
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
Global food prices have spiked since Russia's February invasion of Ukraine, a major world producer of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, driving costs to record hig...
Discovery paves way for more sustainable crop cultivation methods
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
The study, recently published in the journal Biology, investigated how bacteria in non-photosynthetic leaf cells of seed plants can naturally provide nitrogen t...
How crops can better survive floods
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
As part of a collaboration between Freiburg, Utrecht in the Netherlands, and other institutes, Junior Professor Dr. Sjon Hartman from the Cluster of Excellence ...
Zelensky warns of food crisis, urges end to Russian blockade
Jun 11, 2022 (AFP)
Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine was the world's top producer of sunflower oil and a major wheat exporter, but millions of tonnes of grain exports remain tr...
Dutch govt announces plans to slash nitrogen emissions
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
Nitrogen discharges will have to be cut as much as 70 percent in 131 key areas -- many of them close to nature reserves and protected land -- if the Netherlands...
More bad news for wheat stocks from drought-hit Argentina
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
The Rosario Board of Trade said the area planted with wheat in Argentina for the 2022-23 season would be a lower-than-expected 6.2 million hectares. This was 70...
World's poor paying more for less food: UN
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
The global food import bill was on course to hit a new record of $1.8 trillion this year as the Ukraine conflict pushes up cereal and grain prices. But it was h...
Somalia president urges global community to help avert famine
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
Aid agencies have warned of an approaching famine as cases of severe malnutrition among children shoot up in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, which is battli...
Lavrov in Turkey for talks on Ukraine grain exports
Jun 07, 2022 (AFP)
The plane carrying Lavrov landed at the airport in the Turkish capital Ankara, an AFP photographer saw. This is Lavrov's second trip to Turkey after meeting his...
Spain seeks to reduce food waste by supermarkets, restaurants
Jun 07, 2022 (AFP)
"This is a pioneering legal instrument to prevent wastefulness" in the food chain, from producers to consumers, which leads to financial losses and impacts the ...
Syria's climate-scorched wheat fields feed animals, not people
Jun 06, 2022 (AFP)
Fatimi's crop has withered from a climate crisis, adding to fears of supply shortages sparked by the war in Ukraine as Syria grapples with record-high rates of ...
Automated drones could scare birds off agricultural fields
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
A Washington State University research team has developed just such a system, which they detail in a study published in the journal Computer and Electronics in ...
Turkey black rose producers chase sweet smell of success
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
The rosebuds are just as dark, and when fully developed, the flower takes on the colour of an intensely rich red wine. These black roses, known as "Karagul" in ...
Forecast of food cyber attacks
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
Complex IT and math modelling at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, Aix-Marseille University, France and Flinders University in South Australia, has hig...
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