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Farming goes underground in Seoul subway station

Nov 05, 2019 (UPI)

This underground farm doesn't rely on soil and sunlight but uses special LED lighting, hydroponic growing trays and a smart network that controls factors such a...

India's top court orders halt to stubble burning as Delhi chokes

Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)

The Supreme Court said the capital's residents were "losing precious years" of their lives, adding "people are dying, this just cannot happen in a civilised cou...

China to resume Canadian beef, pork imports: Trudeau

Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)

"Good news for Canadian farmers today: Canadian pork and beef exports to China will resume," Trudeau said in a tweet. He lauded Canada's new ambassador to China...

Mobile food tracking app may offer farm-to-table transparency

Nov 02, 2019 (UPI)

In many countries, food certification systems provide consumers with information about where the goods they're buying came from and how they were produced, but ...

Insecticides linked to freshwater fishery collapse in Japan

Nov 01, 2019 (UPI)

In 1993, fishers in Lake Shinji noticed a sudden drop off in the number of fish being hauled in. The collapse followed the adoption of neonicotinoid usage by ri...

Aquaculture offers lifeline to floundering Moroccan fishermen

Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)

"We don't get anything from the sea anymore, we're paying for the mistakes of our fathers," said Mohamed Bouajra, a fisherman in Ras Kebdana, a port town near M...

Trump vows China trade deal will help farmers

Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)

"We're looking probably to be ahead of schedule to sign very big portion of the China deal, and we will call it phase one," Trump told reporters. The deal will ...

Kashmir row sparks Malaysia, India palm oil tensions

Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)

The Southeast Asian nation is the second-biggest producer after Indonesia of the oil, used in everything from food to cosmetics, in a sector long vilified by en...

A roadmap to make the land sector carbon neutral by 2040

Oct 25, 2019 (SPX)

A study published in Nature Climate Change, unveils a land sector roadmap laying out critical actions on forests, farming, and food systems the world should tak...

Scientists publish strategy for carbon neutral land sector by 2040

Oct 24, 2019 (UPI)

The new paper, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, offers strategies for curbing deforestation, boosting land restoration and accelerating...

Real texture for lab-grown meat

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have grown rabbit and cow muscles cells on edible gelatin scaf...

All-organic farming could increase UK emissions: study

Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)

While going organic creates lower emissions per foodstuff -- up to 20 percent lower for crops and 4 percent for livestock -- it also makes farming less efficien...

German farmers stage tractor protest over climate measures

Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)

Long convoys of tractors held up traffic at the main protest sites in Berlin and Bonn, both home to federal government offices, while thousands more honked thei...

Despite having enough food, humanity risks hunger 'crises': report

Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)

After decades of steady decline, the number of people who suffer from hunger worldwide has been slowly increasing since 2015, said the report by the UN's Food a...

Land-based measures in Europe require food system transformation

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

According to the Paris Agreement, global temperature increase must be limited to well below 2C, if possible, to 1.5C. Land-based mitigation measures, especially...

Farmers' strike causes disruption across Netherlands

Oct 16, 2019 (AFP)

In the second national demonstration in three weeks against government plans to curb nitrogen emissions, farmers laid siege to the country's seat of power in Th...

Trump claims a victory in China trade war, but US farmers want details

Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)

But after months of losses and uncertainty amid the trade war Trump launched, many in the farm sector say they need more detail before they pop the champagne co...

1-in-3 young children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF

Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)

"If children eat poorly, they live poorly," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, unveiling the Fund's first State of the World's Children report since...

Study details version of insecticide DDT lost in aftermath of WWII

Oct 14, 2019 (UPI)

"We set out to study the growth of crystals in a little-known insecticide and uncovered its surprising history, including the impact of World War II on the choi...

The benefits of updating agricultural drainage infrastructure

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

The study outlines the need for an overhaul of agricultural drainage infrastructure. Such an update would require major investment and widespread consensus from...