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Nestle unit cuts baby formula prices amid China probe
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
A unit of Swiss food giant Nestle is cutting prices for baby formula in China by as much as 20 percent, it said after the government launched a investigation in...
Slash-and-burn a way of life on Indonesia's Sumatra
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
The ground was still hot and smoke hung in the air when Saparina set out to plant her spinach in the ashen remains of rainforest on Indonesia's Sumatra island, ...
Mapping the benefits of our ecosystems
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
We rely on our physical environment for many things - clean water, land for crops or pastures, storm water absorption, and recreation, among others. Yet it has ...
Diseqilibrium will become the norm in the plant communities of the future
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
The forest we are used to looking at is not at all in equilibrium. Since the Ice Age, a number of plants have been 'missing' in Northern Europe, i.e. species th...
Workers at industrial farms carry drug-resistant bacteria associated with livestock
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
A new study found drug-resistant bacteria associated with livestock in the noses of industrial livestock workers in North Carolina but not in the noses of antib...
Insecticide causes changes in honeybee genes
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
New research by academics at The University of Nottingham has shown that exposure to a neonicotinoid insecticide causes changes to the genes of the honeybee. Th...
China probes baby formula makers over prices: media
Jul 02, 2013 (AFP)
China has launched an investigation into alleged price-fixing by several mainly foreign baby formula makers, state media said Tuesday, with one of the targeted ...
Rapid colorimetric detection technology enables illegal cooking oils with no place to hide
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
In recent years, illegal cooking oil incident led to the serious food safety risks and the negative social repercussions. Professor HE Yujian and his group from...
China officially opens EU wine investigations
Jul 01, 2013 (AFP)
China officially launched anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations on Monday into wines imported from the European Union, the Ministry of Commerce said, the...
Cattle grazing and clean water are compatible on public lands
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
Cattle grazing and clean water can coexist on national forest lands, according to research by the University of California, Davis. The study, published in the j...
How Size-related Food Labels Impact How Much We Eat
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
Just what size is a "small" drink-8 ounces, 12 ounces, 16 ounces? The truth is, those are all "small" sizes depending on what restaurants and fast food joints y...
Airborne gut action primes wild chili pepper seeds
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have long known that seeds gobbled by birds and dispersed across the landscape tend to fare better than those that fall near parent plants where seed...
Comparing genomes of wild and domestic tomato
Jun 27, 2013 (SPX)
You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics. Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan have produced the first comparison of both the DNA sequences and wh...
Dutch government introduces nitrogen-reduction bill for nature areas
Jun 26, 2013 (UPI)
The Dutch government this week is pushing Parliament to pass a law that would reduce nitrogen leaching from farms and industrial sites into dozens of designated...
Your backyard garden might be killing bees
Jun 25, 2013 (UPI)
Many popular "bee-friendly" plants from big-box garden centers come already soaked with pesticides, meaning backyard gardeners may be contributing to the declin...
Rotation-resistant rootworms owe their success to gut microbes
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers say they now know what allows some Western corn rootworms to survive crop rotation, a farming practice that once effectively managed the rootworm pe...
Researchers determine factors that influence spinach contamination pre-harvest
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers from Texas and Colorado has identified a variety of factors that influence the likelihood of E. coli contamination of spinach on farms pri...
Current global food production trajectory won't meet 2050 needs
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Crop yields worldwide are not increasing quickly enough to support estimated global needs in 2050, according to a study published June 19 in the open access jou...
Talks on EU agriculture policy reforms in make-or-break stage
Jun 24, 2013 (UPI)
Chances for reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy hinge on talks this week in Luxembourg, Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney says. Cov...
Yield trends insufficient to double global crop production by 2050
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Crop yields worldwide are not increasing quickly enough to support estimated global needs in 2050, according to a study published June 19 in the open access jou...
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