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The circular economy can boost profits in the water management sector, and at the same time provide farmers around the world with cheaper fertiliser, reports Ida Rambæk from Norway. Nutrients contained in wastewater, such as...
The Colorado potato beetle is a notorious pest, but also a kind of unstoppable genius. It can overcome more than fifty different pesticides. The modern pesticide era began in the 1860s when Midwest farmers...
A new type of soil that can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants could be the key to reducing water use in agriculture during droughts. The soil was created by...
The land sector plays a crucial role in climate change mitigation. It can either release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere or act as a carbon-storing sink. A new paper from the Euro-Mediterranean Center on...
In an effort to reduce agriculture emissions, researchers around Europe are finding ways to turn nutrient-rich farm waste such as chicken feathers and cow dung into eco-friendly fertiliser. According to an article in Horizon,...
Climate change will severely affect water supplies in major agricultural regions in the US. Cotton farmers will be the hardest hit, finds a new study. The US could face a 0.7% drop in GDP...
Climate change is gradually forcing nomadic Fulani shepherds further into southern Nigeria as they search for new pastures. Deadly clashes with local farmers are destabilising the country. Anne Gonschorek reports from Cape Town. It...
A new study has found that agricultural practices, and not fossil fuel production, is to blame for the rise in methane levels in the atmosphere since 2007. A greenhouse gas, methane is a major...
60 per cent of women in sub-Saharan Africa are engaged in agriculture, which means they have a crucial role to play in helping the continent prepare for the impact of climate change. While the...
A new farmland-mapping project shows that up to 90 per cent of Americans could be fed entirely be food grown or raised within 100 miles (160 kilometres) of their homes. This would provide a...
Adapting to climate change could have profound environmental repercussions, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia. Preventing climate change in the first place is far better than adapting to it,...
A new study shows that removing trees not only spews carbon into the atmosphere, but also causes major shifts in rainfall and increases temperatures around the world. This double whammy to the climate could...
