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Greenpeace sounds alarm over animal farming in Spain

Oct 14, 2021 (AFP)

The number of farm animals raised in Spain has jumped by more than a third since 2015 to around 560 million in 2020, it said in the report entitled "Mega-farms,...

Rice sacks to runway: India's battle to rebrand jute

Oct 06, 2021 (AFP)

India is desperate to capitalise on this consumer shift and seize the opportunity to revive its flagging industry, expanding it from sacks and gunny bags to fas...

Science seeks ancient plants to save favourite foods

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

For more than 10,000 years humans have been using selective breeding to adapt fruits and vegetables to specific growing conditions that today are changing at an...

Dry year leaves Syria wheat farmers facing crop failure

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

"Last year the field I planted was burnt to the ground," said the 48-year-old. "This year there wasn't enough rain, and we didn't harvest any wheat." As man-mad...

Grapes of change: French wines adapt to global warming

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

On a small estate in the southwestern region where Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon have reigned supreme for decades, several non-indigenous grape varieties nurtur...

Severe droughts dry up dreams of Turkish farmers

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

"My tomatoes, my beans, my peppers are ruined. My watermelons didn't even grow. The cucumbers I planted have shrivelled up on the branches," lamented Keles, 58,...

'Mad' Israeli quest to revive ancient dates bears fruit

Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)

"The botanical archaeologists said 'you're completely mad. It will never work'," the 72-year-old British-Israeli expert on natural medicine told AFP. But Sallon...

Nigeria looks to revive ailing palm oil sector

Oct 03, 2021 (AFP)

His farm is one of the small plantations scattered across southern Nigeria where the government is investing heavily in the industry as part of its drive to div...

Farmers, researchers seek ways to buttress blueberry fields against climate change

Oct 03, 2021 (UPI)

Temperatures are rising across Maine, especially in the state's Down East region, but researchers say that warming, on its own, isn't yet a problem for blueberr...

Climate change and its environmental impacts on crop growth

Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)

NASA, along with partner agencies and organizations, monitors all of these environmental changes happening today. In addition, NASA uses advanced computer model...

Sri Lanka stops 'tainted' fertiliser import from China

Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)

Agriculture minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage stopped the cargo of organic fertiliser as samples showed harmful bacteria, his office said in a statement. In May...

Burgundy's prized vineyards reel as weather hammers harvest

Sep 25, 2021 (AFP)

"In a normal year it would be full by 9:30 am," said Julien Cheveau as he watched workers dump grapes into a cart at the muddy edge of his field in Solutre-Poui...

Wolf hunting ban pits farmers against conservationists in Spain

Sep 23, 2021 (AFP)

"They haven't left anything... devoured everything," she said, pointing at the ground. There is nothing left of the carcass, not even the smallest bone. Wolves ...

Banana plantations offer bats 'fast food,' but alter gut microbiomes for the worse

Sep 23, 2021 (UPI)

According to the authors of a first-of-its-kind study -- published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution -- banana plantations and other mo...

Leonardo DiCaprio invests in two lab-grown meat startups

Sep 22, 2021 (AFP)

DiCaprio has bought an unspecified stake in Aleph Farms and Mosa Meat, two companies developing protein products grown from cow cells -- an emerging area in the...

Scientists discover earliest remnants of opium use

Sep 20, 2021 (UPI)

Researchers found the residue in ceramic vessels discovered at Tel Yehud, a city in the Central District of Israel. Excavation was done at the request of the Is...

Australia asks WTO to rule against Chinese wine tariffs

Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)

Australia had said in June that it would challenge Beijing's tariffs at the WTO, a barrier that virtually shut down what had been Australia's biggest overseas w...

UN calls for 'repurposing' farm subsidies harming environment

Sep 14, 2021 (AFP)

Released ahead of a UN food systems summit next week, the agencies' report is a "wake-up" for governments to rethink their agricultural support schemes, Food an...

Researchers potty-train cows to reduce ammonia emissions

Sep 13, 2021 (UPI)

When cattle are allowed to relieve themselves as they graze, their waste can collect in fields and contaminate local waterways. If confined to a barn, urine and...

Animal-based food generates nearly twice the emissions as plant

Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)

What humans eat accounts for a major chunk of the emissions behind climate-change -- transportation, deforestation, cold-storage and the digestive systems of ca...