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Full circle: space algae fighting malnutrition in Congo
Sep 15, 2016 (ESA)
Looking for food that could be harvested by astronauts far from Earth, researchers focused on spirulina, which has been harvested for food in South America and ...
Bayer sets $66 bn deal for Monsanto after lengthy pursuit
Sep 14, 2016 (AFP)
German chemicals giant Bayer announced Wednesday a $66 billion deal to buy controversial US seeds and pesticides firm Monsanto, triggering immediate criticism f...
Sri Lanka to shift farmers from elephant corridors
Sep 14, 2016 (AFP)
Sri Lanka Wednesday announced it was planning to relocate farmers living on the edges of forests inhabited by elephants to reduce the numbers killed on both sid...
US challenges $100 bn in China rice, cereal subsidies
Sep 13, 2016 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama launched legal action against "unfair" Chinese rice, wheat and corn subsidies at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday, setting up a...
Rutgers researchers debunk 'five-second rule'
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
Turns out bacteria may transfer to candy that has fallen on the floor no matter how fast you pick it up. Rutgers researchers have disproven the widely accepted ...
Study suggests cover crop mixtures increase agroecosystem services
Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)
Planting a multi-species mixture of cover crops - rather than a cover crop monoculture - between cash crops, provides increased agroecosystem services, or multi...
Fruit flies help explain why humans yearn for protein
Sep 08, 2016 (UPI)
Serotonin may be responsible for our love of protein. The chemical, found mostly in the brain and digestive tract, is involved in the regulation of mood, appeti...
Sorghum: A Super Plant to Save the World
Sep 07, 2016 (JPN)
Long hailed as a 'miracle crop,' the versatile sorghum plant is being hailed as a singular solution to many problems in an increasingly populated, hungry, and e...
Helpers for energy acquisition from plants
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Research into plant cells is far from complete. Scientists under the biochemist Professor Peter Dormann at Universitat Bonn have now succeeded in describing the...
During drought, dry air can stress plants more than dry soil
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under-appreciat...
Future drought will offset benefits of higher CO2 on soybean yields
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher at...
Farming adaptations needed to combat climate change to impact crop yields in 2050
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technolog...
ChemChina rolls over $43 bn Syngenta offer
Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)
State-owned China National Chemical Corp. said Tuesday it was extending its $43 billion agreed takeover for Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta until Novemb...
Early-onset spring models may indicate 'nightmare' for ag
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
Warm springs in the Great Lakes and Northeast regions - which create havoc for agriculture - may start earlier by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions are no...
Crop domestication is a balancing act
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
Skinny lines of ants snake through the rainforest carrying leaves and flowers above their heads - fertilizer for industrial-scale, underground fungus farms. Soo...
Predictive tool vital to sustainable environmental futures
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
A new predictive tool, which for the first time combines human perception of the environment with land-use planning and socioeconomic data, could help governmen...
Can humans learn from the farming prowess of ambrosia beetles?
Sep 06, 2016 (UPI)
To learn the art of sustainable, pathogen-free farming, one group of researchers has turned its attention to the ambrosia beetles, a species of tree-dwelling be...
Iran's pistachio farms are dying of thirst
Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)
The pistachio trees at the village in southern Iran are long dead, bleached white by the sun -- the underground water reserves sucked dry by decades of over-far...
Ivory Coast cocoa farmers seek gold in face of drought
Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)
Once a cocoa planter, Ferdinand Konan Yao has joined the ranks of fellow farmers who have abandoned Ivory Coast's top cash crop to work in clandestine gold mine...
Plants' future water use affects long-term drought estimates
Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)
As humans pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and global temperatures rise, many questions loom. One major issue is how much fresh water will be available f...
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