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Strawberry farms threaten Spanish wetlands
May 27, 2022 (AFP)
"It's dry... really dry," the retired teacher said at the huge Donana National Park in southern Spain, home to one of Europe's largest wetlands, which is threat...
Regrow, not reuse: How restoring abandoned farms can mitigate climate change
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
Some of these croplands eventually regenerate into natural habitats, helping both to increase biodiversity and absorb atmospheric carbon. While environmentalist...
Digital rice selection technology
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the Texas A and M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont will use UAVs to capture real-time images of rice crops, extract crop phenotypic...
Lab-grown meat maker Eat Just strikes deal to increase production
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
Founded in 2011, Eat Just specializes in egg alternatives and meat grown from animal cell cultures. The company's subsidiary GOOD Meat announced Wednesday it ha...
How fast-growing algae could enhance growth of food crops
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
This isn't just an academic exercise. For many people today, the bulk of food calories come from crop plants domesticated thousands of years ago. Since then, ad...
Rice cultivation recorded at a Neolithic site 8000 years ago
May 19, 2022 (SPX)
Microscopic analyses of macro- and micro-plant remains from the Hanjing site were conducted by Zhenwei Qiu at the Institute of Archaeology, National Museum of C...
China lifts ban on Canada canola imports: Ottawa
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
"We got the news yesterday from the Chinese authorities that our Canadian canola can go to China," Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said. "We had two bi...
NASA's Cynthia Rosenzweig Receives 2022 World Food Prize
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
Rosenzweig was selected for the award for her research to understand the relationship between climate and food systems and forecast how both will change in the ...
Wheat prices hit record high after Indian export ban
May 16, 2022 (AFP)
The price jumped to 438.25 euros ($456.68) per tonne as the Euronext market closed, breaking the previous closing record of 422.40 struck on March 7, according ...
Iraq's prized rice crop threatened by drought
May 15, 2022 (AFP)
The long-grained variety of rice takes its name from its distinctive scent, which is similar to that of amber resin. It is used in Iraqi meals including sumptuo...
Scientists grow plants in lunar soil
May 13, 2022 (SPX)
Fifty years later, at the dawn of the Artemis era and the next astronaut return to the Moon, three of those samples have been used to successfully grow plants. ...
The genetic origins of the world's first farmers clarified
May 13, 2022 (SPX)
The first signs of agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle are found in the so-called 'Fertile Crescent', a region in the Near East where people began to settle d...
UN talks to tackle degraded land 'emergency' begin
May 09, 2022 (AFP)
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), involving 196 countries plus the European Union, is meeting for the first time in three years, ...
Between searing drought and Ukraine war, Iraq watchful over wheat
May 08, 2022 (AFP)
"The drought is unbelievable," said the 53-year-old in a white dishdasha robe and keffiyeh head covering at his farm in Jaliha village of central Diwaniya provi...
World food prices fall slightly from record high over Ukraine war: FAO
May 06, 2022 (AFP)
International sanctions against Russia as well as export flow disruptions resulting from the February 24 invasion have sparked fears of a global hunger crisis. ...
Tracking agricultural-related deforestation
May 06, 2022 (ESA)
Approximately 90% of global deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion - a phenomenon which has roots in the global demand for products such as palm oil,...
Water scarcity predicted to worsen in more than 80% of croplands globally this century
May 06, 2022 (SPX)
The new study examines current and future water requirements for global agriculture and predicts whether the water levels available, either from rainwater or ir...
World needs food system 'transformation' to tackle climate: expert
May 05, 2022 (AFP)
Cynthia Rosenzweig, head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was Thursday awarded the prestigious World Food Prize for her...
Eight killed in Iraq clashes over farmland
May 04, 2022 (AFP)
The fighting broke out in Maysan province, with the violence centred in a village some 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of provincial capital Amarah. Mohammed al-...
Microbe-based faux beef could save forests, slash CO2
May 04, 2022 (AFP)
Compared to a current-trends projection for population growth and food demand, swapping half of red meat consumption for so-called microbial proteins would see ...
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