Agriculture
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Sub-Saharan farmers are being denied high yields because they cannot afford the chemical means to replenish nutrient-depleted soil
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Blunders led to live anthrax being posted from one lab and holes being found in isolation suits at a facility handling Ebola-infected animals
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Gordon Conway: Healthy soils help create a healthy food system – and in no region is the impact of depleted soils being felt more acutely than in sub-Saharan Africa
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Global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than transport but fear of a consumer backlash is preventing action, says Chatham House report
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In the face of climate change, conflicts and disease, our panel suggest how to ensure access to nutritious food for all
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Country Diary: Wincanton, Somerset Nowadays these contented cows are milked whenever they feel the need by recently introduced sensitive robots
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Aquaponics offers the ability to produce both fish and plants, like tilapia and kale, year-round and deliver them the day they’re harvested
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UK’s chief scientist has said GM crops could provide plentiful food with less damage to the environment and at lower costs. But does that mean we should grow them? Karl Mathiesen investigates
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Shops forced to ration butter after shortage of milk blamed on a hot summer and tired dairy herds
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Tom Bollich founded Zynga in 2007 and left before it went public. Now he’s reinventing himself as a marijuana entrepreneur, devising sustainable agriculture for the pot industry
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Lawsuit came after unapproved genetically modified “Roundup Ready” wheat was found growing in an Oregon farmer’s field in 2013
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European Commission proposal to prevent national bans on environmental or health grounds looks likely to be amended
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If a collection of boxes doesn’t sound like art, meet artist Sean Rafferty, whose part project, part exhibition Cartonography, shows there’s more to fruit and veg cartons than meets the eye
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The wild apples of Kazakhstan are one of the world’s great food sources. Saving them is vital to the future of the fruit, says Alys Fowler
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Letters: Agra is gradually unlocking Africa’s potential by systematically getting locally grown seed and soil solutions to thousands of African smallholder farmers
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Beauty pageants are bad enough without adding manure to the mix, writes Kagure Mugo
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Barnaby Joyce’s comments come amid fears from farmers that biosecurity could be transferred from the agriculture ministry to Scott Morrison’s department
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Federal inaction over immigration reforms has bred frustration from Silicon Valley to rural New York farms
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Federal hopes that the region could become Asia’s food basket risk ignoring the needs of local people, conference is warned
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Measure that would force food producers to reveal if they are using genetically modified ingredients is attracting record campaign funds from huge corporations
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African NGOs received just 4% of Bill Gates’s money for agriculture work, with 75% for US organisations, report says
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Agriculture hit by both urban and rural pollution as wheat and rice yield decrease significantly, study finds
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Some rarer birds have grown in number over last 30 years due to conservation efforts while some well known species have fallen
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Matthew Evans: Once you’ve seen what comes up in the net after a trawling expedition, you can never take the identity of the seafood on your plate for granted again
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Originally published in the Guardian on 28 October 1969: Rabbits, badgers and other wildlife to be culled in two-mile radius of site in Surrey where dog died of rabies
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Caspar van Vark: Damage to crops costs farmers in the developing world up to 50% of their produce. Can these innovations improve yields?
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Insect infestation threatens promising cash crop that could help to boost income of Nepal’s small farmers. Ian Bickis reports
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A San-Francisco based fund aims to target conventional farms and make them sustainable while providing high returns to investors. Can it work?
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The paradox of uncultivated land and hunger can be reversed, says the head of Malawi’s smallholder farmers’ association Dyborn Chibonga
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Agriculture minister wants to ‘stimulate discussion’ about how to get viable water infrastructure projects moving
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Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea water, writes Tracy McVeigh
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Two-thirds of the way through Gloucestershire cull, fewer than a third of required badgers had been shot
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It’s a buzzword beloved by corporations but there is nothing to ensure “climate-smart” means good for the environment, writes Teresa Anderson
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Water stressed China faces a dilemma between safeguarding food production and releasing water to a thirsty population, can new technology and policy reforms help?
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