FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

New system to restore wetlands could reduce massive floods, aid crops

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new interactive planning tool to create networks of small wetlands in Midwest farmlands, which could help ...

Climate change to affect Mekong production

Apr 01, 2013 (UPI)

Climate change will have a significant effect on major industrial and food crops in the Lower Mekong basin countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, sa...

The latest genomic studies of wheat sheds new light on crop adaptation and domestication

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

The advanced online publication version of Nature presents two manuscripts that provide an unprecedented glimpse into the adaptation and domestication of wheat....

Argentine growers face crippling tax hikes

Mar 29, 2013 (UPI)

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is headed for another confrontation with farmers after the government announced hefty increases in taxes on g...

Swiss baby formula 'adulterated by Chinese partner'

Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)

The Chinese partner of Hero Group, a major Swiss baby formula manufacturer, has been accused of deliberately mislabelling milk powder and a senior employee has ...

Pesticides short-circuit bee brains: study

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

Pesticides used by farmers to protect crops or bee hives can scramble the brain circuits of honeybees, affecting memory and navigation skills needed to find foo...

US regulators under fire over bee-toxic pesticides

Mar 27, 2013 (AFP)

US environmental regulators are under fire from beekeepers and conservationists who say they are failing to vet risky pesticides that put people and valuable cr...

Brazil supermarkets to keep Amazon meat off shelves

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

A group representing Brazilian supermarkets has committed to keeping beef from cattle raised in the Amazon rainforest off the shelves, officials said. The main ...

Airdrop to animals as spring snow blights Britain

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

Britain's military airdropped fodder to farms cut off by freak spring snow as concerns grew Tuesday for livestock animals feared buried under giant snowdrifts. ...

Brazil grocers pledge to shun Amazon meat

Mar 26, 2013 (UPI)

Brazilian grocery store chains promised to shun meat produced in controversial cattle farms in endangered Amazon forests but failed to set a deadline. The super...

Climate change rewrites world wine list

Mar 26, 2013 (AFP)

It's circa 2050 and shoppers are stopping off at Ikea to buy fine wine made in Sweden. A Nordic fantasy? Not according to climate experts who say the Earth's wa...

Genetic analysis saves major apple-producing region of Washington state

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

In August 2011, researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were presented with a serious, and potentially very costly, puzzle in Kennewick, Wash. Since...

Shanghai sees swine flow easing

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

Shanghai said the end of an embarrassing pollution case which saw dead pigs floating down the city's main river was in sight, with the total number recovered no...

Understanding the continuous corn yield penalty

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

As escalating corn prices have encouraged many farmers to switch to growing corn continuously, they wonder why they have been seeing unusually high yield reduct...

Dead ducks in China river as swine flow eases

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

At least 1000 dead ducks were found floating in a Chinese river, state media reported Monday, after Shanghai said it had almost finished recovering thousands of...

China authorities 'got $5 trillion' from land: economist

Mar 25, 2013 (AFP)

Chinese authorities have earned almost $5 trillion in profit by selling land obtained from farmers to developers over the years, a top economist said according ...

Chinese appetite makes peanuts the new 'gold' in Senegal

Mar 24, 2013 (AFP)

High walls protect a Chinese peanut warehouse in central Senegal, where the product is becoming the new "gold" for farmers bypassing local traders to sell to As...

Global nitrogen availability consistent for past 500 years, linked to carbon levels

Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)

A Kansas State University research team has found that despite humans increasing nitrogen production through industrialization, nitrogen availability in many ec...

Haitian farmers call for 'food sovereignty'

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

Hundreds of small farmers have converged on the central Haitian city of Hinche to demand more space to grow their own crops in a country that imports more than ...

UEA research reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

Around half of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The seasonal...