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• Investing in sustainable agriculture by converting farms to 'beyond organic'

  Guardian Professional, 20 Oct 2014: A San-Francisco based fund aims to target conventional farms and make them sustainable while providing high returns to investors. Can it work?

• Three practical steps to go from hunger to abundance in Africa

  Guardian Professional, 20 Oct 2014: The paradox of uncultivated land and hunger can be reversed, says the head of Malawi’s smallholder farmers’ association Dyborn Chibonga

• Coalition revives debate on new dams but avoids any firm commitment

  20 Oct 2014: Agriculture minister wants to ‘stimulate discussion’ about how to get viable water infrastructure projects moving

• Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution

  18 Oct 2014: Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea water, writes Tracy McVeigh

• Badger cull set to fail for second year running

  17 Oct 2014: Two-thirds of the way through Gloucestershire cull, fewer than a third of required badgers had been shot

• Why ‘climate-smart agriculture’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

  Guardian Professional, 17 Oct 2014: It’s a buzzword beloved by corporations but there is nothing to ensure “climate-smart” means good for the environment, writes Teresa Anderson
  

• China's water dilemma between farming and growing population

  Guardian Professional, 10 Oct 2014: Water stressed China faces a dilemma between safeguarding food production and releasing water to a thirsty population, can new technology and policy reforms help?

• Bavarian farmer puts cow in nappy to protest EU fertiliser rule

  9 Oct 2014: German farmer has put a nappy on his cow to protest at an EU directive banning fertilisers on hills with a gradient of more than 15%, saying it will prevent him grazing his cattle

• RHS London Harvest Festival Show – in pictures

  8 Oct 2014: Growers from across the UK come together for the show at the RHS Horticultural Halls in Westminster to exhibit their seasonable bounty

• Facts and figures on milk production

  7 Oct 2014: Letters: The reason the Holstein-Friesian is the main cow used in milk production is that it produces the greatest volume – but its milk has the lowest content of butter fat

• Neonicotinoid ban hit UK farmers hard

  1 Oct 2014: EU ban on pesticide to save bees is making crop vulnerable to a host of pests
  Neonicotinoid ban harming rapeseed crop, farmers say

• Colombia rice growers saved from ruin after being told not to plant their crop

  30 Sep 2014: Farmers given radical advice following a drought warning by scientists using a computer data tool that reaped a UN reward. Diana Cariboni reports

• Raiders of the night: how farmers are being targeted by livestock thieves

  26 Sep 2014: Live-stock rustling is on the rise – 90,000 animals were stolen from British farms last year alone. Who is taking them, and why? Emine Saner investigates

• Grow more food with less water? There's an app for that

  25 Sep 2014: With nearly 3 billion people already facing water scarcity, farmers look to both tech and tradition for ways to grow more food with less of an increasingly strained resource

• The truth about feeding 9 billion people is millions will have to feed themselves

  Guardian Professional, 25 Sep 2014: Forget the green revolution, Chad’s farmers will need help to just grow enough to eat, let alone supply the market, writes Gene Fifer

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