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Greenpeace stages anti-GM 'toxic warning' protest
Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)
Greenpeace activists staged a mock fumigation outside EU offices Wednesday to warn off the European Commission from authorising new genetically modified (GM) cr...
Smallholder farmers need improved stake in Nile's development
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
A new book finds that the Nile river, together with its associated tributaries and rainfall, could provide 11 countries - including a new country, South Sudan, ...
Making barley less thirsty
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
Barley breeders may soon develop varieties of barley which are both less sensitive to high concentrations of salt ions in the plant and more resistant to osmoti...
E. coli adapts to colonize plants
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
New research from the Institute of Food Research has given new clues as to how some E. coli strains, normally at home in mammalian gastrointestinal tracts, have...
Ozone's impact on soybean yield: Reducing future losses
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
People tend to think of ozone as something in the upper atmosphere that protects the earth's surface from UV radiation. At the ground level, however, ozone is a...
Agriculture and food production contribute up to 29 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions
Nov 06, 2012 (SPX)
Feeding the world releases up to 17,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually, according to a new analysis released by the CGIAR Research Pr...
Drought halves Kazakh grain harvest
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
The grain harvest in Kazakhstan, central Asia's breadbasket, almost halved this year following a severe drought, according to government figures released Tuesda...
Storm-battered Haitian farm sector needs $74 million: UN
Nov 06, 2012 (AFP)
Haiti needs international aid to help rehabilitate its agricultural sector in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said...
FAO: Africa land grabs like 'Wild West'
Nov 02, 2012 (UPI)
The head of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization warned that "land grabs" of vast tracts of arable land in Africa by foreign governments and in...
Could chloroplast breakthrough unlock key to controlling fruit ripening in crops?
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
Biologists may have unearthed the potential to manipulate the functions of chloroplasts, the parts of plant cells responsible for photosynthesis. Researchers in...
NASA Maps How Nutrients Affect Plant Productivity
Nov 02, 2012 (JPL)
A new analysis led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has estimated how much the growth of plants worldwide is limited by the amount of nutr...
Plants recognise pathogenic and beneficial microorganisms
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
In collaboration with national and international experts, researchers from Aarhus University have revealed new fundamental features of biomolecular interactions...
Study details essential role of trust in agricultural biotech partnerships
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
Trust between partners is a fundamental requisite in agricultural biotech projects, according to Canadian researchers who have published insights from a four ye...
Desert farming forms bacterial communities that promote drought resistance
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
When there is little water available for plants to grow, their roots form alliances with soil microbes that can promote plant growth even under water-limiting c...
Scientists Find Aphid Resistance in Black Raspberry
Nov 01, 2012 (SPX)
There's good news for fans of black raspberries: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist and his commercial colleague have found black raspberries tha...
Bangladesh city suffers loss of greenery
Nov 01, 2012 (UPI)
Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, once a city of lush forests and grass fields, has suffered drastic environmental changes due to rapid urbanization, experts say. No...
Survey: Israel heaviest user of pesticides
Nov 01, 2012 (UPI)
Israel uses more pesticides in its farm fields than any other Western country, a survey of agricultural practices by its Central Bureau of Statistics found. The...
Minimizing Mining Damage with Manure
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research confirms that the time-tested practice of amending crop soils with manure also can help restore soils on damaged ...
Greater effort needed to move local, fresh foods beyond 'privileged' consumers
Oct 30, 2012 (SPX)
An Indiana University study that looked at consumers who buy locally grown and produced foods through farmer's markets and community-supported agriculture progr...
Honduran crocodile farm bets on skins' glam future
Oct 29, 2012 (AFP)
Fancy a set of crocodile-hide luggage? Or luxe-look croc-skin shoes, or a croc filet? A farm in Honduras is betting on striking it rich by tending the endangere...
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