FARM NEWS - AFRICA DAILY

Seed banking not an option for over a third of threatened species

Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)

In the paper, Kew scientist Dr John Dickie, former Kew scientist Dr Sarah Wyse, and former Director of Science at Kew Prof. Kathy Willis, found that other threa...

Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)

The ANSES health security agency said the decision to outlaw all products containing metam sodium came after a new safety review launched earlier this year -- b...

Heineken seals $3 bn deal with China's top brewer

Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)

Under the deal the Dutch brewer said it will take a 40 percent stake in the holding company that controls China Resources Beer, merge its current operations in ...

Thousands of carp die in mysterious circumstances in Iraq

Nov 03, 2018 (AFP)

Piles of the dead silvery fish, along with a few car tyres and plastic bags, could be seen on Friday lying under a massive concrete bridge. They covered the sur...

Slashed award accepted in Monsanto cancer trial

Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)

Judge Suzanne Bolanos last week denied Monsanto's request for a new trial but cut the $289 million damages award to $78 million to comply with the law regarding...

Cypriot farmers fear no-deal Brexit may hit livelihoods

Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)

He fears he could lose out on vital EU subsidies, and even be forced to pay crippling tariffs, if London and Brussels fail to finalise a withdrawal agreement or...

Brazil's Bolsonaro to merge environment, farm ministries

Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)

"Agriculture and environment will be in the same ministry, as we've said from the beginning," Onyx Lorenzoni, Bolsonaro's pick for chief of staff, told journali...

Chocolate's origin 1,500 years earlier than thought, archaeologists find

Oct 29, 2018 (UPI)

Cacao was first domesticated farther south than thought around 5,300 years ago, according to an international team of researchers. The findings were published M...

France suspends use of popular pesticide after dozens sickened

Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)

The move came after metam sodium was suspected when victims reported burning eyes and respiratory difficulties near Angers, an area which produces huge amounts ...

A topical gel to protect farmers from lethal effects of pesticides

Oct 23, 2018 (SPX)

Organophosphates, are a major class of pesticides with high potential to enter the body through the skin and cause severe neuro-toxicity over persistent exposur...

Judge slashes award but upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer trial

Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)

Judge Suzanne Bolanos denied Monsanto's request for a new trial but cut the $289 million damages award to $78 million to comply with the law regarding how punit...

'Himalayan Viagra' under threat from climate change: researchers

Oct 22, 2018 (AFP)

People in China and Nepal have been killed in clashes over the years over the elusive fungus "yarchagumba," known formally as Ophiocordyceps sinensis. Although ...

Applying auto industry's fuel-efficiency standards to agriculture could net billions

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The work, appearing in the journal Nature Sustainability and authored by New York University's David Kanter and Princeton University's Tim Searchinger, examines...

Summer drought may shrink supplies of French spuds

Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)

The potatoes "first lacked water and then when rain fell in July started growing anew" which means the original plants lost starch and gained too much water, sp...

Study finds potential benefits of wildlife-livestock coexistence in East Africa

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

The study, reported in the journal Nature Sustainability, focused on Laikipia County in central Kenya. "Laikipia County hosts 10 percent of Kenya's wildlife, bu...

Irrigating vegetables with wastewater in African cities may spread disease

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Experts discovered that wastewater collected from canals used for urban agriculture in Burkina Faso was rich in virulent human pathogens which cause gastroenter...

Flexible fertilizer regulations could reduce pollution, save billions

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

To reduce pollution and save billions of dollars in damages, the United States and other national governments should require manufacturers to sell nitrogen fert...

A warmer spring leads to less plant growth in summer

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

However, as evaluations of satellite data undertaken at TU Wien have now shown, this is not the case. On the contrary, in many regions, an early spring actually...

Diversity is key to sustainability for local chicken farming in Africa

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Research led by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with UK and African partners, reveals village chicken populations in Ethiopia to be genetically di...

The science of sustainability

Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)

Green Heart is just one project in one city, but it represents a new way of thinking about the role of conservation in solving human problems. It is part of an ...