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Farming requires `climate-smart` revolution to sustain future generations

A report has cautioned that major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption across

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Russia to ban cattle imports from all EU states

Russia’s food safety and sanitary watchdog will ban cattle imports from all EU countries from

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Human agriculture key to survival for many threatened species

A number of threatened species in the developing world are entirely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, a new study has found

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Pesticides damaging Oz’s Great Barrier Reef, says Govt report

Agricultural pesticides are causing significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef – a World Heritage-listed natural wonder – according to a new Australian government report on water quality at the site

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Dark beer ‘richer in iron content than pale or non-alcoholic beer’

Which beer is better – dark or pale? Researchers from the University of Valladolid in Spain have discovered the answer for one of science’s most pressing questions

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Why bumblebees are disappearing

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is tracking the cause of the decline in bumblebee populations and also searching for a species that can serve as the next generation of greenhouse pollinators

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Mysterious soil fungi identified

Archaeorhizomyces finlayi was isolated from the tip of a pine root that was colonized by a mycorrhizal fungus. However, scientists have not been able to show that A. finlayi forms ectomycorrhizal structures on roots in the lab. Photographed with a light microscope. Photo: Audrius Menkis

Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden, have cultivated

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Now, a fully cooked food-aid product called Instant Corn Soy Blend

A fully cooked food-aid product called Instant Corn Soy Blend that supplements meals, particularly for young, has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists

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Crop with deeper roots could slash CO2 levels

Rearing crops whose roots burrow a metre deeper into the ground than those of existing plants could slash

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A robot that is able to grow corn

A Mexican student has designed a robot capable of doing farm work including “plowing, planting, spraying

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