FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except - it's alive. No, it's not out of the latest horror movie; living mulch is a system farmers can u...

Crops evolving 10 millennia before experts thought

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Professor Robin Allaby, in Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has discovered that human crop gathering was so extensive, as long ago as the last Ice Age, that i...

Study exposes the dark side of coffee cultivation in Uganda

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

In Bududa, Uganda - Africa's second largest coffee exporter following Ethiopia - the harvest typically runs from July through October. The season can extend bey...

Breeding salt-tolerant plants

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

"All approaches so far to breed salt-tolerant plants must be considered more or less as failures", says Professor Rainer Hedrich, plant scientist at the Julius-...

Pigging out: internet mocks McDonald's new China name

Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)

Earlier this month, the company quietly changed its official name from a transliteration of "McDonald's" to a new moniker meaning "Golden Arches" -- a reference...

EU delays vote on renewing controversial weedkiller licence

Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)

A panel of experts from the EU's 28 member states met behind closed doors to consider plans to extend the European licence for glyphosate -- the key ingredient ...

Weedkiller on the examining table over health impact

Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)

Lawsuits and a raging dispute on both sides of the Atlantic have centred on whether the herbicide causes cancer and should be banned. Here's a rundown on the so...

Slurp alert: Japanese fork masks noodle-sucking noise

Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)

Foreign visitors to Japanese noodle bars are often startled to hear the locals -- normally so polite and restrained -- noisily slurping down their noodles with ...

US study finds rise in human glyphosate levels

Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)

The increase dated from the introduction of genetically-modified glyphosate-tolerant crops in the United States in 1994. The findings published in the Journal o...

Palm oil production, deforestation blamed for rising temperatures in Indonesia

Oct 25, 2017 (UPI)

Previous studies have detailed the negative consequences of land conversion and deforestation on biodiversity, but the latest is one of the first to reveal the ...

EU gives ground on weedkiller fears

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

The commission, the European bloc's executive arm, had originally recommended the licence for the herbicide be renewed for 10 years, but faced a growing uproar ...

Global wine output hits 50-year low: OIV

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

The total output of 246.7 million hectolitres was due in large part to steep drops in the top three wine producing countries: Italy, France and Spain. "This dro...

McDonald's profits jump on better sales, China deal

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

Net income for the quarter ending September 30 was $1.9 billion, up 47.7 percent from the year-ago period. That included a gain of about $850 million from the s...

More than 1.3 million demand EU weedkiller ban

Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)

The petition was given to the European Commission, the executive of the 28-nation EU which has recommended the license for the herbicide be renewed for ten year...

Antelope perfume keeps flies away from cows

Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)

Prof. Dr. Christian Borgemeister from the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn and his colleagues from Kenya and the UK have develope...

Little growth observed in India's methane emissions

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

In light of the new international climate agreement, the Paris Agreement, there is increasing need for countries to accurately quantify their greenhouse gas emi...

Smallscale farmers try to solve Amazon's big problems

Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)

"We are just trying to survive," said Cleyton de Oliveira, 24. De Oliveira lives in one of the special areas called extractive reserves that were pioneered in t...

India to close colonial-era military farms

Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)

The 700-acre (285-hectare) farm in the city of 1.1 million people, along with 38 other military farms set up by the country's former British rulers, is to be cl...

Sustainable irrigation may harm other development goals

Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)

Over-extraction of groundwater for crop irrigation is one of the main causes of groundwater depletion in regions including Mexico, North East China, northern Af...

Genetically boosting the nutritional value of corn could benefit millions

Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)

The Rutgers University-New Brunswick discovery could benefit millions of people in developing countries, such as in South America and Africa, who depend on corn...