After decades of plantation agriculture, coconut palms dominate over half of Pacific atoll forests
Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries.
04.12.2024
04.12.2024
For 2025, FAO seeks $1.9 billion to provide life-saving, emergency agriculture assistance to 49 million people
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.9 billion for 2025 to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the worlds most food-insecure populations, as acute hunger tightens its grip across the world’s major food crises.
03.12.2024
Climate Change Endangers Egypt’s Food Security and Agricultural Sector
Egypts climate has been defined by its hot desert, scarce rainfall, and vulnerable water resources dependent on the ebb and flow of the Nile, sporadic rains, and dwindling groundwater reserves.
03.12.2024
USA - Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with ‘forever chemicals’ poisoned their land and killed their livestock
Tony Coleman recognizes the signs all too well. A cow drools strings of saliva. Then it starts to limp, each step slower. Then it grows stiff.
03.12.2024
Soybeans recoup some losses, but Brazil crop outlook caps gains
U.S. soybean futures rebounded on Tuesday in a technical and bargain-buying bounce from the prior days losses, although gains were limited by favourable crop prospects in South America, where Brazil is due to harvest a record crop early next year.
03.12.2024
Genetic improvement drives expansion of corn planted area in Brazil
As per research data, advances in genetic improvement and the use of new technologies, have increased productivity and attracted producers due to the grains high potential for financial returns.
03.12.2024
USA - Federal Court Strikes Down Lax GMO Rules, Halts GE Crop Introductions Without USDA Oversight
In a precedential victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court ruled today that genetically engineered (GE) organisms must be regulated.
03.12.2024
USA - Food supplier Cargill to cut 8,000 jobs globally as falling crop prices hurt profits
Food producer Cargill said Tuesday it will cut about 8,000 jobs globally after falling crop prices tanked profits of the largest privately held company in the US.
02.12.2024
USA - USDA Projects $45.5 Billion Agricultural Trade Deficit for 2025
The USDAs latest forecast estimates a record-breaking $45.5 billion trade deficit for U.S. agriculture in fiscal year 2025, surpassing the $42.5 billion projected earlier this year.
02.12.2024
Nigeria’s livestock sector receives Denmark and Egypt’s backing for modernisation
Egypt and Denmark on Monday in Abuja pledged commitment to collaborate with Nigeria to drive transformational growth and modernise Nigerias livestock sector.
02.12.2024
Digital technologies help increase productivity and reduce agricultural impacts
Growers of peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.), potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) and sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) face the challenge of estimating the best time to harvest and the quality and yield of their crops.
02.12.2024
USA - Georgia’s Kemp, other GOP governors urge Congress to pass Farm Bill after disasters
A group of 17 Republican governors has sent a joint letter to Congress urging passage of an updated Farm Bill.
02.12.2024
USA - Drought lingers across Ohio and other parts of the region, impacting crop yields
What began as a potential record-setting year for corn and soybean yields became a miserable one for much of Ohio because of persistently hot and dry conditions.
02.12.2024
USA - Startup uses AI to ‘supercharge’ crop breeding, potentially helping protect farmers from the climate crisis
Since the dawn offarmingsome 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been inextricably linked to the health of the planet. Now theclimate crisisis disrupting farming across the globe.
01.12.2024
South Africa - Vital vaccine assistance for rural livestock farmers
Efforts to combat livestock diseases in response to 15% drop in beef production.
01.12.2024
China - Xinjiang reaps pearl harvest through pioneering inland aquaculture
Farmers in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an inland region in northwest China, have been busy harvesting salmon, lobsters and hairy crabs – and now pearls.