Originally Published by The Guardian – European development groups have reported that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest scientific assessment of the phenomenon matches the observations and experiences of farming and other groups they partner in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Originally Published by ENS – Developing countries need stronger pesticide regulation and a better understanding of how pesticides behave in tropical climates, according to experts behind a series of articles published in Science today.
Originally published by Worldwatch.org – Climate change will shift the landscape of agriculture around the word in the coming years. Will farmers, policymakers, and scientists widely support “climate-smart” strategies in response to this shifting landscape?
Originally published by ENN Environmental News Network – A gene that gives rice plants deeper roots can triple yields during droughts, according to Japanese researchers writing in Nature Genetics this week
Originally published by The Plant Journal – Some compounds that determine plant species’ characteristics such as the taste of tomatoes can be engineered to produce larger quantities in plants that have few or none of them, researchers at Purdue University have found.
Originally published by University of Illinois-Demand in the U.S. corn market appears to be plateauing, but there’s still hope for soybeans.
Originally published by The Guardian – Government to offer £25m prize for most viable demonstration of making liquid fuel from non-food plants.
Originally published by Ag Web – Every root system tells a story, according to agronomist Bill Bauer.
Originally published in Nature – Oil palm is the most productive oil-bearing crop. Although it is planted on only 5% of the total world vegetable oil acreage, palm oil accounts for 33% of vegetable oil and 45% of edible oil worldwide, but increased cultivation competes with dwindling rainforest reserves . . .
Originally published by Yale Environment 360 – Vietnam has become one of the world’s leading rice producers, thanks to the construction of an elaborate network of dikes and irrigation canals. But these extensive infrastructure projects in the storied Mekong Delta have come at a high ecological price.
