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#1194682019-01-17
As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation
Brazil’s “Agricultural Miracle” credits industrial agribusiness with pulling the nation out of a recent economic tailspin, and contributing 23.5 percent to GDP in 2017. But that miracle relied on a steeply tilted playing field, with government heavily subsidizing elite entrepreneurs.
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#1256322020-11-10
Assessing agroforestry practices and soil and water conservation for climate change adaptation in Kenya: A cost-benefit analysis
The study was carried out under the Integrating Agricultural Sectors into National Adaptation Plans programme, with the aim of capacity building, generating evidence-based results for selecting adaptation options, and informing adaptation policy dialogues on adaptation in agriculture.
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#1263832020-12-21
Avocado farm a threat to Amboseli ecosystem
There are few places on earth where someone can enjoy the wonder of snowy mountain peaks, witness a herd of elephants at sunset and experience an ecosystem lush with wetlands, open grasslands and arid bush all in the span of a day. That is the wonder of the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya.
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#1247052020-03-16
Backing up crop biodiversity collections
The International Potato Center (CIP) recently joined 34 other organizations across the globe in depositing more than 60,000 seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a biodiversity bunker in a mountainside of an Arctic island in Norway.
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#1234662019-12-17
Bad land use blamed for biodiversity loss
Amon Andreas, who is responsible for issues of sustainable land management and biodiversity at the ministry, said unsustainable land use practices include forest clearing for agricultural purposes.
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#1318292021-11-19
Bali’s new highway project bring concerns about agriculture and conservation areas
Concerns over a major highway project in Bali are mounting, with a new study revealing how the road would affect the island’s signature farmlands.
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#1214052019-06-26
Bees 'risk dying from hunger', say French beekeepers
Alarmed French beekeepers and farming groups warned Tuesday of a “catastrophic” honey harvest this year due to adverse weather.
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#1297852021-07-29
Bees As Seeds
For centuries human beings have found in bees the representation of positive values. Symbol of industriousness, ingenuity and generosity, in recent years, bees have become increasingly alarming sentinels of a balance that human beings themselves are threatening.
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#1241682020-02-14
Bees and flowers have had the world’s longest love affair. Now it’s in danger
The oldest love affair in history is between the bee and the flower. It began more than 100m years ago, when nature devised a more efficient way than winds for plants to procreate. About 80% of plant species now use animals or insects to carry pollen grains from the male part of the plant to the ...
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#1200162019-02-19
Bees brought Bavarians together. And they have a lesson for us all
Last week, Bavarians forced their state legislature to change farming policies with the most successful petition in the state’s history. And while the law proposed by the petition covers a range of measures, it’s no surprise that campaigners’ rallying cry quickly became “save the bees”.
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#1200892019-02-26
Beneath the surface: South Africa’s food system is in trouble
The deep flaws in the way in which we produce our food were brought into sharp focus during a drive from the Lowveld to the Highveld. South Africa’s food system is in trouble but I’d be the first to admit that it’s not a message that’s immediately easy to credit. On the surface, we appear to hav ...
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#1264632020-12-28
Best of Landscape News 2020: Food and Livelihoods
Food is central to our cultures, health and, indeed, life. But feeding the world is an immense industry that often depletes the planet’s resources through deforestation, soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and mass conversions of landscapes from their natural states to those designed to benef ...
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#1198792019-02-11
Between food and biodiversity
Cristiana Pasca Palmer : How does the weaver ant help to deliver the food on your plate? The answer might not be immediately obvious, but this feisty predator is critical to maintaining balance in the global food chain: eating and repelling fruit flies that could otherwise destroy lucrative and ...
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#1320742021-12-07
Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes
The community’s traditionally self-sufficient and biodiverse diet features 132 species, notably the fe’i banana, a Melanesian specialty that contains 100 times the vitamin A of a typical banana.
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#1275182021-03-04
Beyond Farm to Fork: the ‘agricultural’ side of EU’s biodiversity strategy
The European Union’s bid to tackle biodiversity loss goes hand in hand with the new ambition of making the food system more sustainable, involving several farming aspects.
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#1343872022-05-12
Beyond honey: 4 essential reads about bees
As spring gardening kicks into high gear, bees emerge from hibernation and start moving from flower to flower. These hardworking insects play an essential role pollinating plants, but they’re also interesting for many other reasons.
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#1227692019-10-29
Big Food is Betting on Regenerative Agriculture to Thwart Climate Change
More than 20 years ago, Will Harris was a commodity cattle farmer who relied on common industrial tools like pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and antibiotics. Today, his 2,500-acre ranch in Bluffton, Georgia, is a holistically managed, no-waste operation with 10 species of livestock rotated to ...
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#1354912022-07-27
Big falls in crop yields across Europe feared due to heatwaves
Yields of key crops in the EU will be sharply down this year owing to heatwaves and droughts, further exacerbating the impacts of the Ukraine war on food prices.
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#1245832020-03-09
Biodiversity at risk because we don’t assess the risk of pesticides properly
A more complete approach to pesticide environmental risk assessment should replace the current system, which represents real world conditions poorly.
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#1201942019-03-04
Biodiversity crisis: Technological advances in agriculture are not a sufficient response
Rapid population and economic growth are destroying biological diversity—especially in the tropics. This was reported by a research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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#1200752019-02-25
Biodiversity declines threaten world food production, warns United Nations
A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, biodiversity in food and agriculture “is indispensable to food security and sustainable development.”
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#1305792021-09-30
Biodiversity for Food Security: A BOLD Approach
“Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development,” or BOLD, a project funded by the Norwegian Government and managed by the Crop Trust, will launch this month to support the development of climate resilient crop varieties and ensure they reach farmers’ fields.
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#1259112020-11-27
Biodiversity is crucial for South Africa’s food security
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching us all some very important lessons. In particular, it is reminding us that our health, our economy and our way of life are built on a fragile foundation that is far too often taken for granted.
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#1203632019-03-14
Biodiversity key to sustainable food production
The Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a report on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture refers to plants, animals and micro-organisms that sustain the ecosystem structures and processes to provide food and non-food ...
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#1243442020-02-25
Biodiversity ‘fundamental’ for global food systems, at “heart’ of development – UN agriculture chief
Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told negotiators on Monday that as agriculture and food systems are “at the heart of the concept of sustainable development”, they are central to deliberations regarding the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework, which is exp ...
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#1201852019-03-04
Biodiversity: Africa’s key to food security and sustainable livelihoods
Unfolding events all over the world are pointing in one direction; that is the imminence of climate change which may prove irreversible. The timing, magnitude of impacts and places where impacts would be felt might vary, but climate change has proven to be inescapable. Choices before nations and ...
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#1321762021-12-15
Boosting agrifood life sciences is key to India’s agricultural future
Whether developed by accelerators or research institutes, life sciences research and development infrastructure must be made available to entrepreneurs.
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#1260602020-12-08
Bringing together Agriculture and Biodiversity
Agriculture and biodiversity are currently both in the spotlights, but mostly as opposites. This must change, but how? A new EU project will investigate how agriculture and biodiversity can best go hand in hand and what this brings in return for the farmer as well as for biodiversity.
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#1328152022-01-31
Bsissa: North Africa's ancient convenience food
When blended with olive oil and honey, this unassuming brown powder – which has been eaten by Tunisians and Libyans for millennia – transforms into a breakfast of champions.
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#1252882020-04-28
Build diverse food systems for post-COVID-19 world
The spread of COVID-19 across the globe has led to never-before-experienced lockdown situations—which in turn are having a significant impact across agricultural systems—threatening food security for increasing numbers of people around the world.
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#1250802020-04-21
Business as usual is no longer an option
There are currently no lack of visitors at Eosta, the market leader in the European organic fruit and vegetable sector. "The turnover is exploding and organic fruit and vegetables are in high demand. We have seen this often in times of crisis, the demand for bio is growing exponentially. In one ...
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#1199372019-02-14
Buy organic food to help curb global insect collapse, say scientists
Buying organic food is among the actions people can take to curb the global decline in insects, according to leading scientists. Urging political action to slash pesticide use on conventional farms is another, say environmentalists.
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#1251832020-04-21
COVID-19 is wake up call for global food systems, say experts
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has exposed a crisis in the global food system, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) — a panel of developmental economists, agronomists, nutritionists and sociologists from 18 countries — said in April 2020.
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#1250372020-04-09
Caffeinated conservation: Colombian farmers switch coca for coffee to protect wildlife
In a clearing around his modest smallholding, farmer Arcadio Barajas stands before a sea of coffee plants, cloaked in the shadow cast by a wall of verdant forest that covers the San Lucas mountains of northern Colombia.
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#1319062021-11-24
Call for recognition of rare native livestock in farming policy
The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has called for Scotland’s new farming policy to recognise native livestock and equine breeds for their biodiversity significance, In a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation paper on a new national agricultural policy, RBST pointed out that the ...
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#1280182021-04-12
Can Grazing Antelope Regenerate South Africa’s Coastal Vegetation?
On July 29, 2020, five eland antelope ambled through the gates of a vineyard on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. They didn’t come for the wine, but rather to graze.
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#1196302019-01-28
Can we ditch intensive farming - and still feed the world?
Food production around the world must rise by half in the next 30 years to sustain a global population expected to top 10 billion by 2050.
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#1248602020-03-25
Can we plant our way to carbon neutrality by 2030?
Several local authorities have included major tree planting initiatives as part of their climate declarations – but can we plant our way to carbon neutrality by 2030? 1st Vice President of the Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT) and Chair of the Local Adaptation Advi ...
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#1245522020-03-05
Cashew Nuts: A Toxic Industry
As has been discussed both here and elsewhere at length, there’s a hidden world of environmental destruction and human misery behind some of the most in vogue food products in the Global North, from avocados to almonds. Demand for the latter has exploded in recent years, driven by partly a rise ...
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#1320862021-12-07
Celebrating all that soils do for us - Dr Kenneth Loades
COP26 highlighted more than ever that we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and become more sustainable before it’s too late. Soil is a key component in this battle and something that we expect to provide food, feed and fibre, store and supply water, store carbon and archive geological and ...
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#1210952019-05-20
Celebrating the greatest of all pollinators—bees
When animals and insects pick up the pollen of flowers and spread it, they allow plants, including many food crops, to reproduce.
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#1233682019-12-10
Chart of the day: This is why we need to protect nature’s pollinators
There is an old custom among beekeepers: they must let their swarms know about important events, such as births, marriages or funerals. Failing to “tell the bees” is said to bring bad luck, less honey, deserted hives and even death. It may be folklore, but it is a reminder of the species’ critic ...
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#1274992021-03-03
Chickpea genetics reduce need for chemicals
In recent years, hummus has become a pop culture food phenomenon, drawing praises from dieticians for the health benefits and chefs for the flavor.
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#1205512019-03-28
China and India are making a greener Earth
Human efforts are producing a greener Earth. But the news is not all good, because some of the greening comes from fertiliser pollution.
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#1213512019-06-18
China moves to protect its crop biodiversity
A wider range of crop varieties would decrease fertiliser and water use, reduce soil pollution and help insects.
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#1282602021-04-27
Civic Sanskriti: Mango magic... the treasure troves that sustain us all
While the brilliant Amaltas flowers are a visual delight, it is the Mango that is perhaps the most loved and delicious component of the golden Indian summer
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#1271002021-02-16
Climate change has exacerbated India’s agrarian crisis – and the new farm laws may make things worse
India is witnessing a historic mass mobilisation of farmers against three new farm laws. The central government maintains that these laws are the cure for a longstanding agrarian crisis.
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#1228552019-11-04
Climate crisis: the countryside could be our greatest ally – if we can reform farming
Around 20% of the UK’s farms account for 80% of the country’s total food production, and they do this on about half of all the farmed land there is. At least 80% of farms in the UK don’t produce very much at all.
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#1199332019-02-14
Climate pioneers: how small farmers could be leading the way towards sustainable agriculture
Agriculture is a leading cause of climate change, but it is also undeniably affected by it. Farming must therefore change in order to keep up with global demands, while reducing its environmental impact. Without these necessary changes, it’s estimated that by 2030, the impacts of climate change ...
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#1244162020-02-27
Climate-Smart Agriculture means More Time for Eswatini Women Farmers
n the southern African nation of Eswatini, women, who already have too many household chores, have had to spend many hours for days on end in the fields, tilling and weeding the soil. But thanks to the gradual introduction of Climate-Smart Agriculture, some are beginning to harvest the gains of ...