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French vineyards say ready to break glyphosate addiction
Feb 27, 2019 (AFP)
President Emmanuel Macron has challenged the industry to stop using the herbicide -- considered "probably cancerogenic" by the World Health Organization's cance...
An uneasy alliance: Indigenous Traditional Knowledge enriches western science
Feb 27, 2019 (The Conversation)
In the Smithsonian Magazine online comments, I encountered these opinions: "I think the Smithsonian should not have published such an extreme postmodernist and ...
Discovery of sour genes in citrus may pave way for sweeter lemons, limes
Feb 27, 2019 (UPI)
Not all citrus fruits are sour, of course. Many feature a sweeter flavor profile. Interestingly, all citrus fruits feature roughly the same amount of sugar. Sou...
Boost for Australian grain industry
Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)
Published in Nature Climate Change, the research has found that Australian wheat crop yields could be substantially increased by early sowing of winter wheats -...
Roundup weed killer factor in man's cancer, US court told
Feb 25, 2019 (AFP)
Edwin Hardeman, 70, treated his property in Sonoma County, California, regularly with the Monsanto-made herbicide from 1980 to 2012 and was eventually diagnosed...
Race on to make urban agriculture viable, durable
Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)
A key ingredient is the trend in ever more imaginative forms towards urban agriculture, a multi-faceted recipe already being pored over by some 800 million peop...
Tech connection boosts NY vertical farmers
Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)
Launched in 2015, Bowery is part of the fast-growing vertical farming movement, which employs technology in a controlled, man-made setting to grow fresh vegetab...
FAO warns food supply threatened by declining biodiversity
Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)
In a report, the first of its kind by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it said there was "mounting evidence that the biodiversity that underpins our...
Germany launches push to halve food waste by 2030
Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)
The new strategy would target households, producers, retailers and the restaurant industry to get them to cut down the 11 million tons of food wasted a year. Th...
Michelin-star chefs join green cuisine crusade
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
It might mean swapping the cote-de-boeuf for cowpeas, the blanquette de veau for buckwheat flour, but a growing number of foodie insiders are joining climate sc...
Indigenous hunters improve health of food webs in Australian desert
Feb 18, 2019 (UPI)
According new research by Rebecca Bliege Bird, a professor of anthropology at Penn State University, the removal of humans from the landscape precipitated the l...
Cuban cigars hit record sales thanks to increasing Chinese demand
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
"China has surpassed France as the second biggest market for Habanos" behind Spain, said the cigar company's vice president Jose Maria Lopez Inchaurbe. Sales in...
Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization
Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)
Vernalization is the process by which plants require prolonged exposure to cold temperature before they transition from the vegetative state to flower. For deca...
After deadly clashes, Ivorian farmers and herders try dialogue
Feb 17, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly three years ago, the northeast region of Bouna plunged into violence between crop growers and nomadic cattle raisers from the Fulani community, leaving 3...
Prickly pears: 'humble' cactus brings hope to Algeria
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
"Now, my future is here. There is no need to go abroad" to find work, said Fethi Gueldasmi, 40, whose family's revenues have been growing thanks to what agronom...
China imposes anti-dumping tariffs on Brazilian chicken
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
The tariffs -- ranging from 17.8 percent to 32.4 percent -- will take effect from February 17 and remain in place for five years, the commerce ministry said. So...
Tracking pollen with quantum dots
Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)
In an article published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution this week, Dr Corneile Minnaar describes this novel method, which will enable pollinatio...
NASA is Everywhere: Farming Tech with Roots in Space
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
Numerous farming tools have roots at NASA. Over the years, companies large and small have partnered with the agency, honed technologies and delivered innovation...
Australia cattle giant warns of 'extreme losses' from floods
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
After more than five years of drought, heavy rains over an almost two-week period turned dusty and parched land in Queensland state into vast swathes of mud tha...
'Hundreds of thousands' of cattle feared dead after Australia floods
Feb 08, 2019 (AFP)
Incessant rains over an almost two-week period have flooded swathes of Queensland state, with the full scale of the devastation on drought-hit cattle stations b...
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