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Mega-Farms Are Driving the Threat of Bird Flu
In the West, where herds of thousands of cattle are common, researchers are seeing cases rise at poultry…
US Meat, Milk Prices Should Spike if Donald Trump Carries Out Mass Deportation Schemes
In recent earnings calls, shareholders in some publicly traded meat companies have asked whether the Trump administration’s deportation…
How CRISPR patent issues block Indian farmers from accessing biotech benefits
Increasingly, agricultural scientists in Asia and Africa are using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop disease-resistant, high-yield crop…
A Parasite That Eats Cattle Alive Is Creeping North Toward the US
On November 22, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily halted the import of cattle from Mexico after…
Diversifying Europe’s protein supply
Marja-Liisa Meurice, Director for EIT Food North and East Region, and Lorena Savani, Mission Lead (Healthier lives through…
Chocolate Has a Sustainability Problem. Science Thinks It’s Found the Answer
Elsewhere, Mars is looking to get to the literal root of the problem by improving the resilience of…
I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I work on ways to help the country’s soil heal
Olena Melnyk at the Salisbury Plain military training area, UK, testing a soil-sampling protocol for use in bomb…
Crushed rocks outpace giant fans in race to remove CO2 from air
Spreading crushed basalt rock dust on fields UNDO Projects that spread rock dust on farms are removing more…
A territorial circular solution for the upcycling of waste generated by the agrifood industry
Agro2Circular is aimed at upcycling waste from the agrifood industry, creating effective enzymatic recycling technology for complex plastic…
Pioneering solutions to tackle food loss
Facing the challenge of food loss at primary production: understanding, measuring, training and adopting. The right to food…