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Customs grab 122 tonnes of fake pesticide: Europol
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
The 10-day operation called "Silver Axe II" saw national custom officers, Europol and the European Anti-Fraud Office conduct operations in 16 countries, includi...
Incremental discovery may one day lead to photosynthetic breakthrough
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Now researchers have uncovered secrets about another protein, CP12 - the full understanding of which may provide an additional route to boost yields in the futu...
Industrial farming disrupts burn-regrowth cycle in grasslands
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Analyzing 1998 to 2015 data from NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, the international team found that the total area of Earth's surface torched by flames had fal...
Botswana bans export of donkey products
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
Export licences for donkeys and their products have been suspended indefinitely, the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security said in a statement ...
New study links common pesticide to bee deaths
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
The results, published Thursday in the US journal Science, also reveal that local environments can mitigate the impact of the pesticide, which is widely used in...
ChemChina completes $43 bn takeover of Syngenta
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
The deal combines Syngenta, a global leader in seeds and crop protection, with ChemChina which controls Adama, the largest supplier of generic crop protection p...
Lake harvests are likely more fruitful than we knew
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
"Our study provides an independent estimate of global inland fishery harvests based on food web ecology and fisheries activity, and can help resource managers i...
Fighting a destructive crop disease with mathematics
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
Maize lethal necrosis (MLN) arises from the interaction of two viruses: maize chlorotic mottle virus (MSMV) and a virus from a group named potyviruses, often su...
French PM says ban on 'bee-killer' pesticide will go ahead
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
A ban on neonicotinoids, set down in a 2016 law on protecting biodiversity, has been fiercely opposed by cereal and sugar-beet farmers, who dispute research hig...
Jury awards $218 mn to farmers in Syngenta GMO corn lawsuit
Jun 23, 2017 (AFP)
The farmers suffered profound economic damage in 2013 when Chinese authorities refused imports of corn grown with Syngenta's bioengineered seeds, causing prices...
Bubbling Chinese market centre-stage at world wine fest
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The world's most populous nation has for years been seen as an El Dorado for foreign wine-makers -- but those hoping to cash in need to keep up with continuing ...
Highly safe biocontainment strategy hopes to encourage greater use of GMOs
Jun 21, 2017 (SPX)
For while GMOs could greatly improve society in numerous ways - e.g. attacking diseased cells, digesting pollution, or increasing food production - their use is...
Waste not, want not
Jun 21, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists in Texas are interested in how seasons affect how well cattle can digest a type of Bermuda grass, Tifton 85. In a recent study, they found that as se...
Growers at Bordeaux winefest unite against climate change
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
Wine makers who once took great pleasure in competing against each other to offer the best wine on the market are now locked in a duel with mother nature to sim...
China opens gates to US beef imports
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
Shipments of eligible US beef have been allowed to enter China since Tuesday, the General Adminstration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said i...
Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
Climbing temperatures and dwindling rainfall have already degraded prime growing areas, such as the Zege Peninsula, they reported in the journal Nature Plants. ...
China 'backyard' pig farmers squeezed as sector scales up
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
Liu employs a dozen people to look after the swine that are kept in indoor sties and outdoor pens -- the type of large-scale operation China hopes will one day ...
Shots fired in Australia's war on food waste
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
The outlet run by food rescue organisation OzHarvest in Sydney takes surplus products normally thrown out by major supermarkets, airlines and other suppliers, a...
Study: To save planet, humans must alter diet and farming methods
Jun 16, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists suggest shifts in food production systems -- a move from conventional to organic agriculture -- won't be enough to stave off environmental degradatio...
Call for more electric fences to stop elephants destroying Gabon crops
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
So far three electric barriers have been built but dozens more are required, Professor Lee White, the British-born director of Gabon's national parks agency (AN...
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