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Agriculture
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world. Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using ‘agro-ecological’ methods, according to
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Consumers
Insects for food? Around the world two billion people eat insects on a regular basis. The current hotbeds — or should we say, hot pots — of consumption
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Agriculture
New GMO Poised for Approval Despite Public Outcry Millions of Americans and farmers don’t want GMOs. Apparently, USDA doesn’t care. Despite its own admission that it will cause
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Consumers
The hunger for profits has compromised food labeling. Walk through your local grocery store these days and you’ll see the words “all natural” emblazoned on a variety of
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Agriculture
Despite U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientific findings that the misuse of antibiotics in farm animals threatens human health from “superbugs,” business will continue as usual. Yesterday,
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Agriculture
Neonicotinoïds, the pesticides most commonly used worldwide, are not only partly responsible for mass bee deaths. They now seem also harmful to insect eating birds. Bird populations were
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Agriculture
New research from Newcastle University, to be published on Tuesday 15 July, in the British Journal of Nutrition, has shown that organic crops and crop-based foods – including fruit,
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Consumers
In the Netherlands a new initiative has recently been started to promote eating insects: The Grasshopper Suppliers. Three young entrepreneurs from Amsterdam are seeking to convince the population
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Agriculture
International project studies biodiversity in agriculture Does organic farming foster biodiversity? The answer is yes, however, the number of habitats on the land plays an important role alongside
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Climate
April fell first. It lasted through May. Now June will be the third month in a row with average carbon dioxide (CO2) levels above 400 parts per million.
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