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Murkowksi: Tariffs hurt more than just agriculture
Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)
Trump unveiled a $12 billion aid package for U.S. farmers during an address in Kansas City earlier this week. Speaking on the issue of trade, the president vowe...
Wildfires, drought hit Sweden's Sami reindeer herders
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
"Our winter land is burning," says Jonas Kraik, a 54-year-old herder, whose Sami village with as many as 8,000 reindeer is a popular tourist destination in the ...
EU court extends GMO rules to new techniques
Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)
"The organisms obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs", the European Court of Justice said in a press release, referring to a newly developed technique that allows th...
We can feed the world if we change our ways
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from Lancaster University have analysed global and regional food supplies to reveal the flows of calories, protein and vital micro-nutrients from pr...
China's persistent food and drug safety problem
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
Despite the country's stunning growth over the past four decades, many consumers in the world's second-largest economy still live in fear of consuming toxic foo...
NASA's 'Space Botanist' Gathers First Data
Jul 24, 2018 (JPL)
ECOSTRESS will measure the temperature of plants from space, enabling researchers to determine how much water plants use and to study how droughts affect plant ...
Environmental changes in the Mekong Delta spell trouble for farmers
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
"The management dilemma for the Mekong Delta is to ensure a habitable environment for human well-being and for rice and aquaculture productivity, while strategi...
Dying groundskeeper links Monsanto's Roundup to cancer
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
The trial pitting 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson against the agrochemical colossus is expected to last into August, with the potential for a major impact on the co...
China's 'livestock revolution' demands 'new transition'
Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)
With this rise set to continue, an international team of researchers has now devised a blueprint to increase production efficiency and environmental performance...
Dying groundskeeper to testify in Roundup cancer trial
Jul 23, 2018 (AFP)
The first-of-its-kind trial pitting 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson against the agrichemical colossus is expected to last into August. "For the past 40 years, Monsa...
HRW urges Brazilian lawmakers to reject new pesticide law
Jul 20, 2018 (AFP)
"Rather than weakening its law further, Brazil urgently needs a plan to reduce its use of highly hazardous pesticides," Richard Pearhouse, the report's author, ...
Japan lifts ban on Canadian wheat imports
Jul 20, 2018 (AFP)
On June 15, Tokyo banned sales and imports of Canadian wheat after Ottawa said unauthorised GM wheat plants were found. "We have decided to lift the ban as we f...
Researchers engineer bacteria to create fertilizer out of thin air
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
These statements may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but new research by Washington University in St. Louis scientists show that it might s...
Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The findings suggest that bread production based on wild cereals may have encouraged hunter-gatherers to cultivate cereals, and thus contributed to the agricult...
In India, swapping crops could save water and improve nutrition
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
Making matters worse, evidence suggests that monsoons are delivering less rainfall than they used to. But a study published in Science Advances shares a brighte...
Cameroon's anglophone crisis hits palm oil, cocoa production
Jul 18, 2018 (AFP)
The Southwest Region faces almost daily clashes between the army and separatists in a conflict that originated mainly in Cameroon's second anglophone area, the ...
Expansion of agricultural land reduces CO2 absorption
Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)
"The CO2 increase in the atmosphere is currently lower than to be expected from anthropogenic emissions," says Professor Almut Arneth from the Institute of Mete...
China chili fest gets off to scorching start
Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)
Local boy Tang Shuaihui took home a 3-gramme 24-karat gold coin for winning the competition, which is put on by a local theme park in the county of Ningxiang an...
As trial opens, man dying of cancer blames Monsanto's Roundup
Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)
"For the past 40 years, Monsanto has known the primary ingredient in Roundup can produce tumors in lab animals," attorney Brent Wisner told the jury in a Califo...
'Round Up' pesticide cancer link on trial
Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)
In the first trial of its kind, a Californian dying of cancer is suing Monsanto, claiming its popular herbicide Roundup caused his disease -- a case that could ...
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