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EU court upholds curbs on bee-killing pesticide
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
The decision involves a partial ban by the European Union from 2013, but the bloc has since taken more drastic action after a major report by European food safe...
In Guadeloupe, going green means going bananas
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
Bananas are the island group's top agricultural export, and there is growing awareness that farming practices need to change as yields drop and damage from pest...
Australian stores limit baby formula as China demand hits stocks
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
Coles' decision to take the milk product off aisles follows complaints from worried mothers over supplies and after Sydney's Daily Telegraph reported one kilogr...
Critics attack Brazil's 'poison law' on pesticides
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
The changes to the regulations over pesticides in Latin America's agriculture giant were being examined Wednesday in a congressional committee. The bill calls f...
With more refined palates, China's thirst for wine grows
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
More than 300 experts from around the world gathered at a luxury hotel in Beijing last weekend to taste 9,000 wines from some 50 countries. After sniffing, tast...
Cassava breeding hasn't improved photosynthesis or yield potential
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
University of Illinois researchers analyzed four African cultivars to find out how breeding has impacted photosynthesis--the process that transforms light energ...
Green economy to boost jobs but farmers hard hit: UN
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
A fresh report from the International Labour Organization estimated that, excluding the agriculture sector, far more jobs would be created than lost if countrie...
Seven chateaux and counting: Chinese billionaire is big in Bordeaux
May 04, 2018 (AFP)
Some left after seeing their investments wither on the vine, but Peter Kwok, who has no fewer than seven vineyards to his name, says he is here for the long hau...
Wood you like a drink? Japan team invents 'wood alcohol'
May 01, 2018 (AFP)
The researchers at Japan's Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute say the bark-based beverages have woody qualities similar to alcohol which is aged in...
Fish farming can help relieve pressures on land resources, study shows
Apr 30, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization estimate an additional 10 billion people will be hungry for protein by 2050 and that a 52 ...
EU to ban bee-killing pesticides
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
Bees help pollinate 90 percent of the world's major crops, but in recent years have been dying off from "colony collapse disorder," a mysterious scourge blamed ...
Mediterranean fears bitter future for citrus crops
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
After decimating orange groves in Florida and trees in California and Brazil, citrus greening disease now threatens the key producing region of the Mediterranea...
South Africa wine production drying up in water crisis
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
Africa's top wine producer is set to produce 8.6 million hectolitres of wine this year, down 20.4 percent down from 2017, the International Organisation of Vine...
How NASA and John Deere Helped Tractors Drive Themselves
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The story starts with GPS, which was still new in the mid-1990s when John Deere, based in Moline, Illinois, began using it for precision agriculture. The compan...
US treaty with Native Americans put to test in Supreme Court salmon case
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
The protracted legal battle is over making repairs to road culverts that impede salmon migration. The Washington state government claims the repairs would cost ...
Monoculture farming is harming bees' microbiome
Apr 17, 2018 (UPI)
To measure the health of the microbiome of honeybees, researchers at the University of Lancaster in England analyzed the diversity of bacteria in bee bread, the...
China hits US sorghum with anti-dumping measure
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
Fears of a trade war have been simmering in recent weeks, with Washington and Beijing exchanging tit-for-tat levies and threats of more duties on hundred of bil...
Japan faces record low eel catch, renewing stock fears
Apr 13, 2018 (AFP)
At the end of March, Japan had 8.8 tons of baby "Anguilla japonica" eels in culture ponds, including imports from China, Taiwan and South Korea, according to a ...
Sweet potatoes came to Polynesia before humans did, study suggests
Apr 13, 2018 (UPI)
When European explorers first visited Polynesia, they found an abundance of sweet potatoes, a root vegetable native to the Americas. Researchers led by a team a...
Organic fertilizers are an overlooked source of microplastic pollution
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
Recycling of organic waste through composting or fermentation, followed by application of the resulting fertilizer products to agricultural land, is considered ...
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