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Carbon farming schemes should consider multiple cobenefits
Sep 17, 2013 (SPX)
Carbon markets and related international schemes that allow payments to landholders for planting trees, sometimes called carbon farming, are intended to support...
China's hunger for soya more animal than vegetable
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
China is the biggest soya consumer in the world, but demand driven by the increasingly wealthy country's voracious appetite for meat and fish raised on the prod...
Chinese demand fuels record soy crops in South America
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
Soy fields stretch as far as the eye can see in South America's fertile plains, boosted by a jump in demand from China and Europe. With more than 82 million ton...
Brazil's soybean bonanza hampered by choking ports
Sep 17, 2013 (UPI)
Brazil is set to overtake the United States as the world's largest soybean producer but its exporters face a potentially crippling bottleneck -- congested ports...
Soy rules in Latin America as China, Europe beckon
Sep 17, 2013 (AFP)
In row after neat row, lush green plants cover the fertile plains of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay -- soybeans destined for hungry markets in China and Europe....
French milk firm to investigate China corruption claim
Sep 16, 2013 (AFP)
French baby formula manufacturer Dumex promised Monday to investigate allegations that its staff bribed Chinese hospital officials to provide its products to ne...
Almost 20 percent of grain in China lost or wasted from field to fork
Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)
A comprehensive new review of food waste in the People's Republic of China has concluded that about 19 of every 100 pounds of grain produced in the country go t...
Indonesian farmers take legal action against president over haze
Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)
Indonesian farmers in a province at the centre of Southeast Asia's worst smog outbreak for years have filed a lawsuit against the president in response to the h...
Overgrazing turning parts of Mongolian Steppe into desert
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
Overgrazing by millions of sheep and goats is the primary cause of degraded land in the Mongolian Steppe, one of the largest remaining grassland ecosystems in t...
Certification of aquaculture critical to sustainable seafood production
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
Certification of products from aquatic farming - aquaculture - is contributing to sustainable production, but it also has serious limits. Therefore it should be...
Spread of crop pests threatens global food security as Earth warms
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
A new study has revealed that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South Poles at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. The stu...
A genetic treasure hunting in sorghum may benefit crop improvement
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
A consortium of researchers from The University of Queensland, the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF Qld) and BGI has discovere...
Report proposes microbiology's grand challenge to help feed the world
Sep 10, 2013 (SPX)
A greater focus on the role of microbiology in agriculture combined with new technologies can help mitigate potential food shortages associated with world popul...
Study forecasts future water levels of crucial agricultural aquifer
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
If current irrigation trends continue, 69 percent of the groundwater stored in the High Plains Aquifer of Kansas will be depleted in 50 years. But immediately r...
An alga stressed by the light
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the UPV/EHU's Bentos Marino group analysed samples of algae populations from five zones and measured the amount of light pr...
Chinese dairies seek French tie-ups to shore up image
Sep 08, 2013 (AFP)
Companies in China, whose tainted milk powder scandal in 2008 left six dead and more than 300,000 sick, are vaunting tie-ups with French dairies to shore up the...
Peking duck not all it's quacked up to be
Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)
China's first authentic version of the giant Rubber Duck that has made a splash around the world and inspired fakes across the country made its debut Friday -- ...
S. Korea widens Japanese fish ban over contamination fears
Sep 06, 2013 (AFP)
South Korea expanded its ban on Japanese fisheries products Friday over fears of contamination from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, accusing Tokyo of not ...
Crop pests moving polewards through global warming
Sep 01, 2013 (AFP)
Crop-damaging insects, bacteria, fungus and viruses are moving poleward by nearly three kilometres (two miles) each year, helped by global warming, a study said...
Cattle ranching goes green in the Brazilian Amazon
Sep 01, 2013 (AFP)
In a remote corner of the Brazilian Amazon, farmer Lacir Soares is promoting sustainable cattle rearing that shuns deforestation and meets the environmental req...
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