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The story of animal domestication retold
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
Many of our ideas about domestication derive from Charles Darwin, whose ideas in turn were strongly influenced by British animal-breeding practices during the 1...
Predicting bioavailable cadmium levels in soils
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
New Zealand's pastoral landscapes are some of the loveliest in the world, but they also contain a hidden threat. Many of the country's pasture soils have become...
Building Better Soybeans for a Hot, Dry, Hungry World
Apr 19, 2014 (JPL)
A new study shows that soybean plants can be redesigned to increase crop yields while requiring less water and helping to offset greenhouse gas warming. The stu...
New study reveals more about our relationship to food
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
Tucked away in Hartford, Connecticut, a Puerto Rican community is creating a tropical home away from home through cuisine that is so authentic it has caught the...
Shade grown coffee shrinking as a proportion of global coffee production
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
The proportion of land used to cultivate shade grown coffee, relative to the total land area of coffee cultivation, has fallen by nearly 20 percent globally sin...
Pioneering findings on the dual role of carbon dioxide in photosynthesis
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Umea University have found that carbon dioxide, in its ionic form bicarbonate, has a regulating function in the splitting of water in photosynthe...
China says massive area of its soil polluted
Apr 17, 2014 (AFP)
A huge area of China's soil covering more than twice the size of Spain is estimated to be polluted, the government said Thursday, announcing findings of a surve...
Danone says China recall weighs on first-quarter sales
Apr 16, 2014 (AFP)
French dairy food giant Danone reported on Wednesday a slide in first quarter sales as it struggles to turn around its Chinese business amid volatility in curre...
Japan culls 112,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak
Apr 15, 2014 (AFP)
Japan has finished slaughtering 112,000 chickens after confirming its first bird flu infections for three years, with authorities stepping up efforts to swiftly...
Farming for improved ecosystem services seen as economically feasible
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
By changing row-crop management practices in economically and environmentally stable ways, US farms could contribute to improved water quality, biological diver...
GM crops under the microscope at international debate
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
One of the world's most contentious food issues - Genetically Modified (GM) crops - will be debated by some of the world's leading authorities on the subject at...
Camels emit less methane than cows or sheep
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
Ruminant cows and sheep account for a major proportion of the methane produced around the world. Currently around 20 percent of global methane emissions stem fr...
Oyster aquaculture could significantly improve Potomac River estuary water quality
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
Oyster aquaculture in the Potomac River estuary could result in significant improvements to water quality, according to a new NOAA and U.S. Geological Survey st...
Unity is strength in the marketing of smallholder farm produce
Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)
Smallholder farmers often face the challenge of accessing markets and selling their produce at competitive prices because they produce in small quantities that ...
Climate: Farming emissions to rise 30% by 2050
Apr 11, 2014 (AFP)
Greenhouse gases emitted by agriculture are on track to rise by 30 percent by mid-century, driven especially by livestock and use of fertiliser, a UN agency rep...
Chinese man covered with 460,000 bees for honey stunt
Apr 10, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body in more than 460,000 bees for a publicity stunt aimed at selling more of his honey, he told AFP Thursday, using ...
Chinese pork firm $5.3 bn IPO set to be the biggest in a year
Apr 10, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese pork producer WH Group hopes to raise more than $5 billion in what would be the world's biggest initial public offering for a year as it plans to list i...
Tracking Sugar Movement in Plants
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at the University of Queensland, Australia, overturns a long-held the...
Field study shows why food quality will suffer with rising CO2
Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time, a field test has demonstrated that elevated levels of carbon dioxide inhibit plants' assimilation of nitrate into proteins, indicating that ...
The tiniest greenhouse gas emitters
Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)
Climate feedbacks from decomposition by soil microbes are one of the biggest uncertainties facing climate modelers. A new study from the International Institute...
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