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Unlikely alliances bringing back dead rivers, barren landscapes, and farm yields
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
An unconventional approach that involves building alliances between groups competing for limited land and water resources has the potential to dramatically incr...
Single-track sustainability 'solutions' threaten people and planet
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
The targets, indicators and approaches being used to pursue progress towards sustainable development at Rio+20 are counter-productive, say scientists in a new p...
Rapidly cooling eggs can double shelf life, decrease risk of illness
Jun 18, 2012 (SPX)
Taking just a few seconds to cool freshly laid eggs would add weeks to their shelf life, according to a Purdue University study. The rapid-cooling process, deve...
Word Food Program chief in Rio for UN summit
Jun 17, 2012 (AFP)
UN World Food Program chief Ertharin Cousin arrived here Sunday to attend a United Nations summit on sustainable development and discuss plans to fight world hu...
Hong Kong wine auction fetches $2.2 million
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
An auction of fine and rare wines fetched $2.2 million in Hong Kong on Saturday, with more than 90 percent of the lots sold, the organisers said. Christies Asia...
China firm recalls baby formula tainted with mercury
Jun 15, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese dairy maker Yili said it had started recalling batches of baby formula after authorities found they contained high levels of mercury, in the latest food...
Bacterium signals plant to open up and let friends in
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have identified the set of tools an infectious microbe uses to persuade a plant to open the windows and let the bug and all of its friends inside. T...
Using recycled sewage treatment plant water for irrigating crops
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
A new study eases concerns that irrigating crops with water released from sewage treatment plants - an increasingly common practice in arid areas of the world -...
Finding ways to feed pigs for less
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
Results of a preliminary experiment conducted at the University of Illinois indicate that it may be possible to select pigs that can make efficient use of energ...
Maize diversity discoveries may help ease world's hunger pangs
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, report that ancient farmers had a stronger impact on the evolution of maize, or corn, than modern plant bree...
A New Way of Looking at Photosystem II
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
Future prospects for clean, green, renewable energy may hinge upon our ability to mimic and improve upon photosynthesis - the process by which green plants, alg...
EU, China agree on ag sustainability
Jun 13, 2012 (UPI)
The European Union and China will address food security and sustainability issues through "a stronger and closer relationship" in agriculture, officials said th...
Parasitic plants 'steal' genes from their hosts
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
New research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Genomics reveals that the Malaysian parasitic plant Rafflesia cantleyi, with its 50cm d...
Niger farmland threatened by locusts: official
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
Large swathes of farmland are threatened by locusts in Niger even as the drought-prone African nation is grappling with a severe food crisis, a pest-control off...
Notre Dame research shows food-trade network vulnerable to fast spread of contaminants
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
University of Notre Dame network physicists Maria Ercsey-Ravasz and Zoltan Toroczkai of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications, in co...
China threatened by farmland contamination
Jun 12, 2012 (UPI)
Much of China's agricultural soil is contaminated by pollutants, including arsenic and heavy metals, that pose a threat to the country's food production, expert...
EU says deal with China key to fight fake wine
Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)
The EU commissioner for agriculture said Tuesday an agreement with Beijing to battle counterfeits would likely be signed in September, adding the deal was key f...
Low-carbon farming takes root in Brazil's Amazon
Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)
Manoel Jose Leite, a small-scale organic farmer, is set to pioneer low-carbon agriculture in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, which for decades has been destroyed by...
Plant research funding crucial for the future
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
The scientific community needs to make a 10-year, $100 billion investment in food and energy security, says Carnegie's Wolf Frommer and Tom Brutnell of the Dona...
Nepal 'Himalayan Viagra' harvest droops to record low
Jun 10, 2012 (AFP)
Every summer, Himalayan villages empty as locals rush to the mountains of northern Nepal to harvest yarchagumba, a high-altitude wild fungus that is prized for ...
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