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Parasites fail to halt European bumblebee invasion of the UK
Jun 04, 2014 (SPX)
A species of bee from Europe that has stronger resistance to parasite infections than native bumblebees has spread across the UK, according to new research at R...
Satellites improving lives in rural Africa
Jun 03, 2014 (ESA)
An ESA-supported project is showing how satcoms can help farmers, voters and educators in rural Africa. The three elements of the Sway4edu project are helping t...
Blunting rice disease
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
A fungus that kills an estimated 30 percent of the world's rice crop may finally have met its match, thanks to a research discovery made by scientists at the Un...
Drop in global malnutrition depends on ag productivity, climate change
Jun 01, 2014 (SPX)
Global malnutrition could fall 84 percent by the year 2050 as incomes in developing countries grow - but only if agricultural productivity continues to improve ...
Chinese wines struggle to uncork overseas sales
Jun 01, 2014 (AFP)
China's makers of merlot and chardonnay have found success at home, but have struggled to convince drinkers overseas that their wines can compete with offerings...
France's unloved tipples hope to match cognac's Asia boom
May 30, 2014 (AFP)
After cognac's transformation into a Chinese status symbol, its lesser-known French cousins armagnac and calvados are hoping to establish themselves in lucrativ...
Weather Impacts on Food: A QandA with NASA's Molly Brown
May 29, 2014 (SPX)
When floods, droughts, and other natural disasters hit isolated and poor regions of the world, it can have devastating impacts on the local price of food. Resea...
US city drops threat to close 'smelly' hot sauce factory
May 29, 2014 (AFP)
A California city has dropped its threat to close a factory that makes famed Sriracha hot sauce, after months of haggling over residents' complaints about punge...
Australian organic farmer loses GM test case
May 28, 2014 (AFP)
An Australian farmer who lost his organic produce licence after his fields were contaminated by a neighbour's genetically modified canola crop failed Wednesday ...
NMSU's drought-tolerant alfalfa variety created to meet New Mexico growers' needs
May 28, 2014 (SPX)
Robert Flynn and Ian Ray, both alfalfa experts at New Mexico State University, have been researching a new drought-tolerant alfalfa variety. The Billy Melton va...
Asia's largest wine expo opens in Hong Kong
May 27, 2014 (AFP)
Asia's biggest wine and spirits fair opened in Hong Kong on Tuesday, drawing the world's top producers from France to Chile despite China reporting the first de...
Wondering about the state of the environment? Just eavesdrop on the bees
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have devised a simple way to monitor wide swaths of the landscape without breaking a sweat: by listening in on the "conversations" honeybees have wi...
European farmers adapting to climate change
May 26, 2014 (SPX)
A new Stanford study finds that due to an average 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming expected by 2040, yields of wheat and barley across Europe will drop more th...
US Farmers Can Turn their Ag Waste Problems into Profit
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
The time is now for U.S. farmers to fully monetize the massive amounts of biomass energy bound up in crop residues, animal manure and other forms of ag waste, a...
With climate changing, Southern plants do better than Northern locals
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Can plants and animals evolve to keep pace with climate change? A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that for ...
Shrub growth decreases as winter temps warm up
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Many have assumed that warmer winters as a result of climate change would increase the growth of trees and shrubs because the growing season would be longer. Bu...
China Bright Food to buy majority stake in Israel's Tnuva
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
China's state-owned Bright Food will take a majority stake in Israel's biggest food producer Tnuva, it said Thursday in the latest step of an overseas buying sp...
Big drop in wintertime fog needed by fruit and nut crops
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
California's winter tule fog - hated by drivers, but needed by fruit and nut trees - has declined dramatically over the past three decades, raising a red flag f...
The Added Value of Local Food Hubs
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
As the largest purchaser of wholesale produce in Santa Barbara County, UC Santa Barbara's residential dining services provided the perfect avenue for a pilot pr...
Migrating birds stop off in Cyprus at their peril
May 20, 2014 (AFP)
Under the cover of night, activists patrol key poaching sites in southeast Cyprus, described as an ecological disaster zone for endangered migratory birds on th...
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