FARM NEWS - BIOTECHNOLOGY DAILY

Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)

The work, published in two overlapping studies Oct. 5 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics and Global Change Biology, emphasizes the need for ...

Are we at a tipping point with weed control?

Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)

"I think the future of cheap food is strongly related to the availability and effectiveness of existing herbicides," says Adam Davis, ecologist in the Departmen...

Pesticide poisoning kills 20 farmers in Indian state

Oct 09, 2017 (AFP)

The farmers in the western state of Maharashtra, one of India's most important agricultural regions, died after using the dangerous pesticides without wearing p...

Climate change, population growth may lead to open ocean aquaculture

Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)

This modeling study found that the warming of near-shore surface waters would shift the range of many species toward the higher latitudes - where they would hav...

Earliest evidence for a native African cultigen discovered in Eastern Sudan

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

The evidence comes from an archaeological site (known as KG23) in eastern Sudan, dating from 3500 to 3000 BC, and is associated with an ancient archaeological c...

Biodegradable microsensors for food monitoring

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

However, as the sensors often contain precious metals that are harmful to both the environment and human health, they are not suitable for medical applications ...

Bee-harming pesticides in 75 percent of honey worldwide: study

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

Human health is not likely at risk from the concentrations detected in a global sampling of 198 types of honey, which were below what the European Union authori...

Win-win strategies for climate and food security

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

As countries look to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many see potential in their forests and farms. The land-use sector, which includes agriculture and f...

Setback for EU deal on hormone-disrupting chemicals

Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)

The European Parliament voted against a list produced by the European Commission of criteria to help identify what are known as endocrine disruptors in products...

Chinese buyers fleeced in Australian wool scam

Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)

Australia is the world's number one producer of premium-quality fine wool and the largest producer of all wools by value and volume, with China the dominant sou...

First global pact backing indigenous land rights launched

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, formally launched in Stockholm on Tuesday, aims to help communities protect their land resources as well as c...

Land grabs cause lingering SE Asia conflicts: report

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

Only six such clashes have been resolved, while others have resulted in lawsuits, damaged corporate reputations, abandoned projects, and even loss of life, acco...

Global methane emissions from agriculture possibly much larger

Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joi...

Artificial light device boosts cows' milk yields by 9 percent

Oct 01, 2017 (UPI)

The device was developed by Equilume, a company spun-out of the research labs at the University College Dublin in Ireland. For a few years, the company has been...

EU battle heats up over controversial weedkiller

Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)

EU states have been deadlocked for more than a year over whether to declare that the chemical - used in US agro-giant Monsanto's best-selling herbicide Roundup ...

Planet-warming methane from livestock underestimated: study

Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)

Revised calculations of methane produced per head of cattle show that global livestock emissions in 2011 were 11 percent higher than estimates based on data fro...

Climate insurance is rarely well thought out in agriculture

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

The effects of climate change are felt particularly acutely in developing countries. A range of international initiatives develop and promote risk insurance. On...

Global network of botanical gardens contain a third of all known plant species

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

The study, published in the journal Nature Plants, found that the global network of botanic gardens conserves living plants representing almost two-thirds of pl...

Bulgarian village goes Chinese in yoghurt craze

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

"It's difficult. You have to be quite tough not to give up," says pensioner Tsvetka Radkova, 66, as she puffs and pants in the classroom in the village of Momch...

Study identifies likely scenarios for global spread of devastating crop disease

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

Since the turn of the century, however, aggressive new strains have emerged - such as 'Ug99', first detected in Uganda in 1999 - that infect widely grown variet...