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Study finds consumers willing to pay more for 'all-natural' labeled foods

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

A study published in the Journal of Food Science found that expectations of product quality, nutritional content and the amount of money consumers were willing ...

Widely accepted vision for agriculture may be inaccurate, misleading

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

"Food production must double by 2050 to feed the world's growing population." This truism has been repeated so often in recent years that it has become widely a...

Mumbai's original inhabitants fear world's tallest statue

Feb 23, 2017 (AFP)

A fitting tribute to a local legend or a grotesque misuse of money? The decision to build the world's tallest statue just off Mumbai's coast has divided the cit...

French Greens offer hair to highlight pesticide risks

Feb 23, 2017 (AFP)

Seven top French environmentalists including a presidential candidate have had their hair tested to draw attention to the prevalence of pesticides and other pol...

Bee decline threatens US crop production

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands - from California's Central Valley to the Mi...

Fifth of world's food lost to over-eating and waste

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

Almost 20 per cent of the food made available to consumers is lost through over-eating or waste, a study suggests. The world population consumes around 10 per c...

Maize study finds genes that help crops adapt to change

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments. A new study, published in Nature Genet...

Bioinvasion on the rise

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

"It had remained unclear whether or not the accumulation of alien species has already reached a point of slow-down", says Dr Hanno Seebens from the Senckenberg ...

Nicaragua focuses on climate-change resistant coffee

Feb 17, 2017 (AFP)

With climate change threatening crops in many parts of the world, Nicaragua is turning to a robust variety of coffee bean to protect one of its key exports. The...

90 percent of fish used for fishmeal are prime fish

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Every year for the past 60 years, an average of 20 million tonnes of fish caught in the global ocean have not been used to nourish people. A new study emerging ...

Snap beans hard to grow in cover crop residue

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

More no-till farmers are using cover crops to conserve soil and suppress weeds, but many vegetable producers are reluctant to get on board. That's because many ...

Mongolia herders reel under dreaded 'dzud' weather

Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)

Thousands of Mongolian herders face disastrous livestock losses from a dreaded severe weather phenomenon known as the "dzud", the Red Cross said Thursday in lau...

Study rewrites the history of corn in corn country

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

A new study contradicts decades of thought, research and teaching on the history of corn cultivation in the American Bottom, a floodplain of the Mississippi Riv...

Using high-resolution satellites to measure African farm yields

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Stanford researchers have developed a new way to estimate crop yields from space, using high-res photos snapped by a new wave of compact satellites. The approac...

Gluten-free diet may increase risk of arsenic, mercury exposure

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

People who eat a gluten-free diet may be at risk for increased exposure to arsenic and mercury - toxic metals that can lead to cardiovascular disease, cancer an...

New idea to fight billion-dollar threat to soybean production

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Invisible to the naked eye, cyst nematodes are a major threat to agriculture, causing billions of dollars in global crop losses every year. A group of plant sci...

Stanford scientists measure African crop yields from space

Feb 13, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new method for accurately measuring crop yields using satellite images. Scientists hope their new strategy w...

China villagers 'beat the Buddha' for a good harvest

Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)

Beating a rock statue of Buddha to wish for a good new year and an abundant harvest, villagers in China's eastern Fujian province have a unique way of worshippi...

Grow, mow, mulch: Finding lawn's value

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Cranking up the lawn mower on a Saturday afternoon may be a child's most dreaded chore. But little does he or she know that it also affects how much carbon and ...

Sticky gels turn insect-sized drones into artificial pollinators

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

As bees slip onto the endangered species list in the United States, researchers in Japan are pollinating lilies with insect-sized drones. The undersides of thes...