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#1282252021-04-22
Ireland’s strategy to be a world leader in sustainable food by 2030
Ireland’s plan to be a world leader in sustainable food systems by 2030 has been thrown open to public consultation. Submissions or observations on the draft Agri-Food Strategy to 2030 and associated Environmental Report and Natura Impact Statement are invited, until June 15, 2021.
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#1218802019-08-13
Is India on Track to Beat the Perfect Storm?
NEW DELHI, Aug 12 2019 (IPS) - “The Perfect Storm” was a dire prediction that by 2030 food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources together with climate change would threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration from worst-affected regions.
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#1290862021-06-04
Is carbon the 'crop' of the future?
An increasing awareness and concern about the environment, changes in government policy, America's re-entry into the Paris Agreement and a robust demand for carbon offsets all point toward an appetite for a different type of agricultural crop—carbon.
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#1271512021-02-17
Is floating agriculture a nature-based solution?
Farmers of the south-central districts of Bangladesh, namely Barishal, Gopalganj, Madaripur, and Pirojpur, have been practicing floating agriculture for decades, if not centuries. But over the last two decades, this indigenous, wetland-based agrosystem has turned into something of a "climate cel ...
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#1275192021-03-04
Is soil health restricted to agricultural activities?
Soil is considered a viable living ecosystem in itself as it performs numerous functionalities that not only serve as a foundation of agricultural activities but also act as a key focal point for the growth and developmental activities of a nation.
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#1202352019-03-06
Italy’s olive oil crisis: extreme weather and disease caused last harvest to drop by 57%
Italy’s olive oil production could be drying up and supplies exhausted within a month, after the industry experienced a concerning 57 per cent drop in production last year.
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#1271072021-02-16
Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest
As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland.
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#1257612020-11-18
Kenya: Root Vegetables - Kenyan Schools Embrace Indigenous Foods
Today, when students file into the lunchroom at Mundika High School in western Kenya, they are greeted by a spread of nutritious local vegetables with exotic-sounding names, like spider plant. But that wasn't always the case. Just a few years ago, that fare had largely disappeared from Kenyan pl ...
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#1283162021-04-28
Kenyan Experts: Pesticides Killing Bees, Forcing Farmers to Hand-Pollinate
Kenyan farmers say they are being forced to hand-pollinate their crops due to a decline in bee populations from pesticides. Kenya’s insect experts say the chemicals, meant to kill desert locusts and other pests, are killing off bees and other pollinating insects.
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#1312802021-10-28
Knorr will launch 50 regenerative agriculture projects across the world to reduce food's impact on the climate
Knorr, Unilever's largest food brand, commits to grow 80% of key ingredients (vegetables, herbs, spices, grains), globally, following Unilever's Regenerative Agriculture Principles by 2026.
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#1325112022-01-14
Large Herbivores May Improve an Ecosystem’s Carbon Persistence
Wildlife and open-canopy ecosystems like grasslands are rarely a part of discussions surrounding climate change mitigation. Now, a new review points to interactions between wild herbivores and vegetation to show how restoration efforts could be optimized by aligning climate goals with biodiversi ...
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#1276862021-03-15
Large scale research project to empower African farmers and agribusinesses to adapt to climate change
Africa is at the forefront of climate change impacts. These changes can wreak havoc on production and sourcing of agricultural commodities, such as grains, cotton and vegetables. Soil health management and better seeds for instance can help, but where to begin?
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#1216412019-07-19
Last call for a food systems revolution
Half of the world’s population is directly engaged in agriculture and nearly 40 per cent of land is devoted to agriculture and livestock.
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#1246712020-03-13
Lessons from Sweden's organic farming sector
There is much to be learned from Sweden on integrating our farm systems, naturally, with the local ecosystems. It seems I brought the snow to Sweden. Like us, they have had a mild, wet winter, and even in Dalarna, towards the middle of the country, barely a scrap of the white stuff has fallen.
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#1316532021-11-15
Life is getting sweeter for bee farmers
Villagers have seen living standards rise after they began raising and protecting the insects, which pollinate plants and also protect biodiversity. Yang Wanli reports from Kunming.
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#1242912020-02-21
Locust invasion hits crops as Pakistan suffers worst infestation in 20 years
A swarm of desert locusts is destroying crops and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in Pakistan's Punjab province. The country, which is facing its worst locust infestation in two decades, declared a national emergency earlier this month.
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#1348952022-06-07
Long-standing systems for sustainable farming could feed people and the planet — if industry is willing to step back
Global food systems are at a breaking point. Not only are they responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, they are also the top contributors to water pollution and biodiversity collapse.
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#1321052021-12-09
Long-term forecasts help farmers in India
Climate change is severely impacting India's farmers by making monsoons more irregular. One farmer in Madhya Pradesh found help in a forecast model devised in Germany that predicts the rains with surprising accuracy.
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#1188102018-11-06
Madagascar, troubled vanilla island
The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is the leading global producer of vanilla and blessed with a bountiful biodiversity, yet it remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
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#1216652019-07-22
Making room for wild foods in forest conservation
The first-ever FAO report on the importance of biodiversity for food and agriculture warns that the abundance of our food supply is diminishing — with worrisome consequences for global food security.
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#1289602021-06-01
Managing agricultural biodiversity takes time
A three-year research project shows how functional traits drive pollinator and predator responses to semi-natural grassland strips embedded in agricultural landscapes. The findings are published in Journal of Applied Ecology.
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#1290972021-06-07
McCain pledges to use only regeneratively-farmed potatoes by 2030
Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today.
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#1229282019-11-08
Meet The 12-Year-Old Girl Who Documented Climate Change From Nicaragua
12-year-old Edelsin Linette Mendez lives with her siblings and parents on their small coffee farm in the beautiful highlands of Nicaragua. Coffee farming has supported the Mendez and thousands of other families for generations, with coffee accounting for 30% of the country’s exports.
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#1232432019-12-03
Menace & the Myths~I
The use of pesticides in agriculture has been increasing with time as the demand for food production increases with the increase in population. Historically, pesticides have been known as economic poison and can be categorized into insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and plant-growth-regulators ...
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#1311002021-10-22
Middle East’s growing role in global food security
The global food system is facing a number of stresses and shocks due to the complex interplay of social, economic, political and environmental factors.
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#1324952022-01-14
Milk without the cow: Cellular agriculture could be the future of farming, but dairy farmers need help
A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi to produce milk protein for ice cream at a commercial scale. And pre-commercial companies, like TurtleTree and Better Milk, are engineering mammary cells to produce human and ...
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#1255162020-11-03
Mind-boggling variety’: the food crusaders preserving India’s heritage
A small army of botanical heritage enthusiasts is spearheading a m ovement in India for the revival and preservation of the country’s rapidly vanishing food biodiversity by bringing back the rich crop varieties that thrived in the past, but are now on the verge of extinction.
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#1226442019-10-15
My beef with scapegoating meat in climate change conversation
The meat industry is a popular target to blame when we analyze the biggest contributors to global warming, but the belief that adopting a purely meatless diet to combat climate change may not be enough.
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#1258732020-11-26
Namibia: Agriculture and the Ecosystems
Agriculture is concerned with rearing animals and the cultivation of crops whilst an ecosystem simply refers to a community of living organisms such as plants and animals together with the non-living components such as the air and soils, interacting with each other in their environment.
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#1214092019-06-26
Natural biodiversity protects rural farmers' incomes from tropical weather shocks
A big data study covering more than 7,500 households across 23 tropical countries shows that natural biodiversity could be effective insurance for rural farmers against drought and other weather-related shocks.
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#1255732020-11-05
Nature-inspired solutions to sustainably increase crop yield
GAIN4CROPS is developing novel disruptive technologies to overcome one of the main constraints of photosynthesis: the photorespiration, a process that reduces CO2 assimilation efficiency, and thus biomass yield and agricultural productivity.
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#1320802021-12-07
Ndumo Game Reserve: The complicated balancing act of subsistence farming and nature conservation in KwaZulu-Natal
As cultivated fields expand and grazing cattle explore ever further in the Ndumo Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, researchers worry about unresolved efforts to address human poverty while also trying to protect the ever-shrinking spaces left for wildlife and nature conservation.
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#1281112021-04-20
Nestlé scientists uncover low carbon and drought-resistant coffee varieties
In a new breakthrough, Nestlé plant scientists have developed a generation of low carbon coffee varieties, through classical non-GMO breeding that harnesses the plant’s natural biodiversity.
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#1230302019-11-18
Net Food Importer Turkey Grapples with Challenges of Food Self-sufficiency
Despite latest research showing Turkey lagging in overall food sustainability, progress in sustainable agriculture appears to be a bright spot in the country’s troubled agriculture industry.But local farming groups, NGOs and international bodies, while welcoming government efforts to promote sus ...
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#1269802021-02-10
New biodiversity initiative launched
A new locally-led farm and community biodiversity initiative has been launched by the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pippa Hackett.
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#1320192021-12-02
New network for farmers to share climate change mitigation measures
A new peer-to-peer network has been launched for farmers and crofters to share climate change mitigation measures.
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#1206862019-04-09
New pathways for sustainable agriculture
Hedges, flowering strips and other semi-natural habitats provide food and nesting places for insects and birds in agricultural landscapes. This also has advantages for agriculture: bees, flies, beetles and other animal groups pollinate crops and control pest insects in adjacent fields.
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#1204882019-03-25
New publication examines consequences of groundwater depletion to agriculture
A new Council of Agricultural Science and Technology, or CAST, paper examines the causes and consequences of groundwater depletion throughout the U.S. with a focus on how this will affect agriculture—the largest sector of groundwater use.
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#1216042019-07-17
New research outlines 5-course ‘Menu of Solutions’ to achieve sustainable food future
Washington, D.C. 17 July 2019 — With the world’s population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, a major new report shows the global food system must undergo urgent change to ensure there is adequate food for everyone without destroying the planet.
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#1296172021-07-22
New ‘Reawakened Foods’ Campaign To Promote Global Biodiversity Through Storytelling
According to North America-based NGO, The Lexicon, 30,000+ edible plants are available to include in our diets, however, more than 50% of the world’s plant-based nutrition is based on only three crops. This threat to our global biodiversity in the fields impacts our food systems and causes infer ...
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#1225952019-10-09
News analysis: Advancing food security through GMOs
For any country to advance its economic growth, Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), analysts say, it must be at the forefront of its key sectors such as environment, health, industry and agriculture.
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#1205602019-03-28
Nigeria: 'Those Claiming Organic Agric Can't Feed Nigeria Are Ignorant'
Dr Olugbenga AdeOluwa is the Vice-President of the Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria (AOAPN). He spoke with Head of Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA on what organic agriculture implies, how it can feed the growing population and dangers inherent in genetically modified ...
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#1197942019-02-06
No degree, no problem for this rice innovator
Despite lacking a college or university education, farmer Pham Van Nhut in Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has made great contributions to agricultural development in his community.
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#1283092021-04-28
No substitute for honey
How adulteration and bee malnutrition threaten the future of this food, the bees that make it, and all the other plants they pollinate.
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#1312712021-10-28
No tilling, no chemicals: A S.African farmer's response to climate change
It's spring in South Africa, and Danie Bester's tillers are rusting in a corner of his farm. Freshly-turned earth stretches for miles on other farms as his neighbors prepare their fields.
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#1276342021-03-09
OPINION: Greener agriculture is a win for farmers, food companies and the environment
Conventional farming is one of the world’s greatest drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss, and we’re running out of time to reverse its adverse effects. But there is good news too: the largest study ever done on sustainable farming supports the idea that regenerative agriculture could ...
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#1231072019-11-25
OPINION: Innovative financing of resilient food systems key to global security
Financing climate-smart rice production is key to global food security and urgently needed to avert social unrest
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#1297862021-07-29
OPINION: Why our broken food system is overshooting the Earth's planetary boundaries
The global food system is the main driver of the ecological and climate crises pushing natural systems beyond the boundaries of a safe operating space for humanity
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#1242882020-02-21
Odisha Adopts Champion's Vision to Safeguard its Biodiversity
Organic farming and environment conservation through protection of forest resources in Odisha has made Professor Radhamohan, a Padma Shri award winner this year, an icon beyond the boundaries of his state. Many come to his not-for-profit organisation, Sambhav, based in Nayagarh district to learn ...
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#1197912019-02-06
Oil palms need one-ninth of land used by other vegetable oil crops
A palm oil task force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released the results of a study showing that palm oil production is the most efficient in terms of land use compared with other vegetable oils, which need nine times more land to produce the same amount of oil.