With global food supplies set to match demand by 2025, prices will stagnate once inflation is excluded, says an OECD-FAO report. Food prices will stagnate over the next decade as the population g...(more)
The pest is a moth called the Tomato Leaf Miner, or Tuta Absoluta and it first appeared in early March.The moths ravage the whole plant - leaves, tomatoes and stalk. They're like termites de...(more)
If you let them, Opossums can help by eating snails, grubs, beetles, rats, mice and gophers that might otherwise chow down on your crops or lawn. They also eat ticks, preventing Lyme Disease. The...(more)
Urban farming isn't always more environmentally friendly, as experts believe such farms actually end up making global warming worse. Again, urban farms may not feed entire cities, but what t...(more)
The BBC website is going to remove more than 11,000 archived recipes as part of a plan to cut £15 million from the corporation's online budget and focus on distinctive public service conten...(more)
If soil changes take place in a negative form, restoring this soil back to its original state is quite a challenge. However, by the use of compost which introduces beneficial soil organisms to su...(more)
An organic market called Bioferia is organized every Saturday in Miraflores, Lima. The food comes from farms in all regions of Peru: olives and olive oil from Arequipa, rice and quinoa from Piura...(more)
A homeless man who stole cheese and sausages from a supermarket in Genoa has been acquitted by Italy’s highest court, which ruled the theft of small amounts of food by the hungry poor is not a ...(more)
The Dervaes family produces about 4,300 pounds of vegetables, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 pounds of honey, and seasonal fruits on their 4,000 square-foot land just outside the southern Ca...(more)
The Elephants and Bees Project uses an in-depth understanding of elephant behaviour to reduce damage from crop-raiding elephants using their instinctive avoidance of African honey bees. Beehive F...(more)
In a first-in-the-world move, the U.S. has allowed genetically engineered salmon to be sold as food. This salmon, combining the genes from three different types of fish, would compete with their ...(more)
As of the end of December, 2015, Sikkim has turned into India’s first completely natural state in the nation. Actualizing natural cultivating rehearses on 75,000 hectares of area, the nationals...(more)
Denmark, already way ahead of other countries in organic food production, has announced that it will convert the entire country’s agriculture into organic and sustainable farming, making it the...(more)
Assuming India’s 587,000 villages can harvest the runoff from 200 million hectares of land, excluding inaccessible forest areas, high mountains and other uninhabited terrains, it gives every vi...(more)
The Mobile Good Food Market in Toronto, Canada works from a converted bus and travels the city selling affordable, higher-quality, nutrient-dense, fresh produce from broccoli to apples and onions...(more)
Syrians refugees in Canada are encouraged to take a year to adjust to Canadian life, before looking for work. But immigrant Assam Hadhad, once a chocolate maker in Syria, makes gourmet chocolates...(more)
Food packaging is a major source of plastic waste. Developing wrapping that is edible could help - not just the environment, but maybe even taste, too. A scientist at a green chemistry conference...(more)
Soora Munijanaki, a woman farmer from Andhra Pradesh, could once barely subsist with what she earned from her farmland. She was also spending a lot on fertilizers and pesticides. Now she uses her...(more)
With mounting pressure from public, big food giants have started to clearly label its foods containing GMO. This has come as a big respite for those who are trying to live a healthy, GMO-free li...(more)
India imports 4,000 tonnes of kiwi fruit from New Zealand, Italy and Chile. But Arunachal Pradesh grows kiwi fruit as well and sells at 30 per cent lower, but still no takers. Although the distri...(more)
Cowism,a startup by an engineer-who-returned-to-the-village Chetan Raut, educates local farmers on how to use traditional, farm-based agricultural solutions to become self-reliant and financially...(more)
Bulgarian farmers with large land holdings now use drones to help at work. Three drones,which take off, fly, and land autonomously, make two flights a day each, can monitor a 10,000 hectare farm ...(more)
Falling lease rentals on farmland, one of the best indicators of agricultural downturn, is manifesting itself in Punjab, where farmers are returning to cultivating paddy, after growing cash crops...(more)
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