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#1271532021-02-17
This root vegetable could help alleviate hunger and end soil erosion. Here’s how
What thrives in poor soil, can tolerate rising temperatures and is brimming with calories? The cassava – sometimes referred to as ‘the Rambo root’. This plant could potentially help alleviate world hunger, provide economically viable agriculture and even put an end to soil erosion, according to ...
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#1271542021-02-17
Plant-based diets will be essential to the planet’s future, report says
Switching en masse to a plant-based diet is essential to protect wildlife habitats and prevent the loss of numerous species currently facing extinction, according to a new report.
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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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#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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#1269902021-02-11
5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture
Many practices are associated with regenerative agriculture — anything from no-till practices to pesticide-free farming. What’s more, the concept means different things for different crops in different regions. What is considered regenerative in one location might not qualify for the same label ...
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#1269502021-02-10
UN highlights importance of pulses for diets and food security
Pulses – also called legumes – are the edible seeds of plants from the pea family, cultivated for consumption. They are a key ingredient in dishes and cuisines globally: hummus in the Mediterranean; baked beans in English diets, or dal in south Asian cuisine.
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#1269672021-02-10
Why plant diversity is so important for bee diversity
A honey bee foraging on lavender. Photo taken by Prof Francis Ratnieks. As abundant and widespread bees, it is common to see both bumble bees and honey bees foraging on the same flower species during the summer, whether in Britain or many other countries.
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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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#1269422021-02-09
Evidence mounts that ecofriendly wine tastes better
Consumers have shown that they are willing to pay extra for organic produce grown without pesticides, even if it doesn't taste better.That has not been the case for organic wine. Organic-labeled wines generally sell at prices similar to those of non-organic wines. And that's despite growing evid ...
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#1269242021-02-08
Why does Himachal Pradesh have a brand new nutrition garden?
On Sunday, the chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, Jai Ram Thakur, inaugurated a nutrition garden at the Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University at Palampur. The garden is spread over an area of 3,250 square meters and saplings of apple, peach, plum, apricot, pomegranate a ...
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#1268412021-02-03
Plant-based diets crucial to saving global wildlife, says report
The global food system is the biggest driver of destruction of the natural world, and a shift to predominantly plant-based diets is crucial in halting the damage, according to a report.
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#1268582021-02-03
Food system impacts on biodiversity loss: Three levers for food system transformation in support of nature
Biodiversity loss is accelerating around the world. The global rate of species extinction today is orders of magnitude higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years.
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#1267142021-01-26
How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture
Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy to allow economic growth while reducing nitrogen losses was disapproved by the highest court in the Netherlands, casting the country into a nitro ...
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#30522021-01-20
United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021
Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/AS/CC/VA/89396 (2021-007)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
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#1266722021-01-19
Plotting the future: the ‘seed guardians’ bringing variety to UK gardens
tt’s a fine, crisp day and the first frost of the season, a significant occasion for any gardener and one that has not gone unnoticed by the seed guardians of the Stroud Community Seed Bank.
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#1266762021-01-19
Innovation to counter food supply-chain disruptions and spur recovery
At Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, FAO Director-General appeals for a creative and integrated approach to agri-food systems to drive recovery from COVID-19 and achieve a sustainable world
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#1266782021-01-19
A Chef is Reviving the Ozarks Through Food
Chef Rob Connoley is working with farmers, archivists, and Indigenous communities to try to define and revive Ozark cuisine at his restaurant Bulrush in St. Louis, MO. Connoley hopes to increase biodiversity while connecting people back to the land.
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#1266202021-01-14
French President urges global leaders to support agricultural development
In a move to sustainably address rising hunger and poverty, exacerbated by COVID-19, climate change and biodiversity loss, French President Emmanuel Macron called on global leaders to step up their commitments in support of long-term agricultural development.
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#1265472021-01-11
Soil erosion control requires special attention
Soil is one of the most vital non-renewable resources that many organisms on the planet depend on, as it ensures food security of the nations; so that it needs urgent attention, ISNA quoted Seyed Mohammad Mojabi as saying on Sunday.
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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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#1264792020-12-28
Seed saving movement calls for seeds to be publicly owned
Seeds need to be brought back into public ownership, rather than belonging to a small group of agrochemical companies, say campaigners, after a year in which seed-swapping and saving has reached new heights of popularity.
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#1264482020-12-23
The good old ways: can we still farm like our grandparents?
Mary Ankers is back on the farm. In every direction there is a memory of her childhood. Everything had involved being outside. Jumping on hay bales, bottle-feeding newly born calves and sitting on the back of the trailer with her two older brothers during harvesting.
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#1264082020-12-22
Variety: Spice of life for bumble bees
The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn't just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role. A team has used innovative molecular biological methods and traditional microscopy to investigate the pollen collecting behavior of honey bees and bumble be ...
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#1264142020-12-22
Almost 90% of the world's animal species will lose some habitat to agriculture by 2050
Scientists know that biodiversity is declining across much of the world although less universally and dramatically than we feared. We also know that things are likely to get worse in the future, with a combination of habitat loss, climate change and overexploitation set to drive species and habi ...
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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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#1263172020-12-17
A no-meat diet everywhere will not solve the climate crisis
People in industrialized regions like the United States of America or Europe are generally urged to eat less meat and animal-source foods as part of a healthier and lower-emissions diet.
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#1263102020-12-16
The future of agriculture: why unis must prepare students to secure both our food and our planet
Agriculture will soon be worth A$100 billion a year to Australia. The industry employs more than 250,000 people, stewards 80% of our land area and drives world-class agribusiness and food sectors. In an uncertain employment market, every new agriculture graduate has a choice of six job opportuni ...
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#1262692020-12-15
EU project will SHOWCASE the path to biodiversity-friendly farming
SHOWCASing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity (SHOWCASE) is a newly funded EU Horizon 2020 research project, dedicated to the integration of biodiversity into farming practices.
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#1261332020-12-10
Importance of soil biodiversity remains ‘largely underestimated’
The importance of below-ground biodiversity, as well as its complex interaction with the above-ground world, is often overlooked, according to a recent UN report. Soil is not only vital to agriculture but essential for clean water and maintaining biodiversity.
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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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#1260642020-12-08
South Africa: Food and Clean Water Start With Soil Biodiversity - Learning More About It Is Urgent
Although soils are vital for agriculture, biodiversity and clean water, this below-ground world is often overlooked. The loss of life below the ground due to intensification of agriculture, climate change, erosion and compaction, among other things, is one of the biggest global threats to soils.
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#1260922020-12-08
Pathways to sustainable land use and food systems
The findings of a new report by the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium, suggest that integrated strategies across food production, biodiversity, climate, and diets can meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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#1260942020-12-08
FAO to support Iran to ensure sustainable healthy biodiverse soils
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) representative to Iran Gerold Bödeker, reaffirms the Organization’s stance to support Iran in developing and adopting policies and programs promoting sustainable agricultural systems and nurturing soil biodiversity.
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#5988World Soil Day 2020
5 December 2020, Rome, Italy
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#1259912020-12-03
World Soil Day celebration at Muresk
The Muresk Institute will host a free, farmer-focused event for World Soil Day this Saturday. A United Nations International Day of Significance, World Soil Day highlights the importance of healthy soil and advocates for its sustainable management.
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#6013165th session of the FAO Council
30 November - 4 December 2020, Rome, Italy
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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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#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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#1258812020-11-26
The State of Food and Agriculture 2020: Overcoming water challenges in agriculture
More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high levels of water shortages and scarcity, and almost half of them face severe constraints. Furthermore, available freshwater resources per person have declined by more than 20 percent over the past two decades, unders ...
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#1258462020-11-25
Our Thanksgiving Menu has Lost a Few Crops
The modern Thanksgiving plate has turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and — of course — pumpkin pie. But long before Thanksgiving, there were other agricultural plants in the Americas. Those domesticated crops are now extinct. Scientists, like Dr. Logan Kistler, Curator of Archaeobotany at the Smi ...
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#1258282020-11-24
The dark side of Italian hazelnut farming
As Italian hazelnut plantations expand to cater to our love of chocolate and nougat, they are leaving a bitter aftertaste on local soil, water and air.As the early morning mist clears to reveal the turrets of San Quirico Castle in central Italy, the greenery surrounding local farmhouses comes al ...
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#1258292020-11-24
Eat like it matters: how your food choices can clean up the planet and feed the world
Food is why we’re all here. It sustains life, spreads joy and brings us together.But if we are to feed 10 billion people in a healthy way within planetary boundaries, the way in which we produce and consume food needs to change.
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#1257992020-11-20
Why small farms are key to the future of food – and how we can support them
In the 25 years since Clayton Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation,” much has been written about the benefits of shaking up established business practices. Even before the current pandemic, there was a growing recognition that our food systems, too, needed to be reimagined.
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#1258012020-11-20
Table for 10 Billion? Leaders to Unlock More Sustainable and Equitable Food Future
The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated vulnerabilities in food systems – highlighting the insecurity of rural livelihoods, the tragedy of food waste, and stark inequities in access to healthy food. As the global population races to 10 billion, more needs to be done to feed the planet while tackling ...
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#1258062020-11-20
Sustainable Soil Management with Spectroscopy
Modern agricultural research is focused on how to feed the future population of the world. Year on year, farmers aim to generate a greater amount of food from the same resources and quickly changing environmental conditions only increase the pressure for international food supply.
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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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#1257192020-11-16
Plant biodiversity suffers without livestock grazing, says expert
On the back of a recent European Commission-funded report which called for nuance in the livestock vs environment debate, EURACTIV took a look at the importance of EU grasslands and the role of livestock in maintaining them.The report, published in October, comes amidst increasing debates over t ...
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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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#1255982020-11-06
What the limits of traditional accounting mean for the future of food
Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development. Against this backdrop, some industry o ...