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Swedish oat milk producer Oatly eyes $10 billion IPO
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The company, which produces oat-based alternatives to dairy products, such as milk, yoghurt and ice cream, said it had applied to be listed on the Nasdaq under ...
Famine 'tightens grip' on southern Madagascar : UN
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
Five straight years of low rainfall have wiped out harvests and hampered access to food, compounding the effects of erosion caused by deforestation and devastat...
What a buzz: saving Malaysia's bees, one nest at a time
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed b...
Climate to ravage Kenya's tea production
May 09, 2021 (AFP)
Tea is the world's most consumed drink after water and disruption in supply from the east African nation is predicted to have a global impact. A report from the...
Many consumers use, trust food date labels but misinterpret information
May 06, 2021 (UPI)
New survey data -- published Thursday in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior -- suggests many consumers get mixed up when interpreting "USE By" and ...
Pandemic, war, climate change fuel food fears
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Last year, 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute food shortages -- 20 million more than in 2019, according to a report by the EU, the Food and Agricult...
RIT researchers using drones and artificial intelligence to help assess crop growth
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers are aiming to create a cost-effective and accurate 3D reconstruction sensing system that can be equipped on unmanned aerial systems. Current sys...
Illinois, Nebraska scientists propose improvements to precision crop irrigation
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
A new University of Illinois led study identifies obstacles and solutions to improve performance and adoption of irrigation decision support tools at the field ...
In London, rail-side gardening blossoms during pandemic
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening, horticulture and so-called rewilding to the urban jungle is bearing fruit ...
ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more
Apr 21, 2021 (ESA)
Formalising this new cooperation, ESA's Acting Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Toni Tolker-Nielsen, and the Food and Agriculture Organization's Chief ...
France to give one bn euros aid to farmers hit by frost
Apr 17, 2021 (AFP)
Across France, agriculturists are counting their losses after the freeze -- which followed a period of unseasonably warm weather -- affected hundreds of thousan...
India's desert salt farmers feel the heat from climate change
Apr 15, 2021 (AFP)
For eight months every year, farmers toil in scorching heat to pump out briny water from handmade wells in a sparse corner of western Gujarat state. A tonne of ...
Tunisia 'sandy' farms resist drought, development
Apr 15, 2021 (AFP)
Retired schoolteacher Ali Garci wanders among tiny sandy plots, inspecting his potatoes, lettuces and onions. "It's not land that we cultivate for the profit it...
French growers feel the pinch as cold snap wrecks crops
Apr 13, 2021 (AFP)
The worst spring frost in decades has killed off most of the shoots, and the weather forecast is not promising. "We should have six bunches of grapes per vine. ...
Adding legumes to crop rotations offers sustainability, nutritional advantages
Apr 13, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study -- published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems -- the addition of legumes, such as beans and lentils, could ...
Brazil eyes record grain harvest as China demand booms
Apr 09, 2021 (AFP)
Farmers in the world's number one soy producer and number three corn producer have been harvesting at a record pace, capitalizing on prices that have leapt to m...
French wine growers light fires as frost threatens harvest
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
The vineyard fires have caused a layer of smog in the southeast of the country, local authorities reported Thursday. The practice of lighting fires or candles n...
Shepherds were tending sheep in Central Asia at least 8,000 years ago
Apr 08, 2021 (UPI)
The earliest crops and domesticated livestock originated around 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia and the mountains of Western Asia. Durin...
Deadly algae kill 4,200 tons of Chilean salmon
Apr 08, 2021 (AFP)
It's the latest mass mortality event recorded in the world's second largest producer of salmon. It has been attributed to harmful algal blooms that reduce the a...
Plant gene discovery could help scientists develop heat-tolerant crops
Apr 06, 2021 (UPI)
Recently, researchers discovered a gene that helps plants sense heat. Scientists hope their discovery -- detailed in a new paper, published Tuesday in the journ...
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