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Planting trees is not a quick fix for climate change

Political parties in developed countries have made various promises to plant billions of trees. And many private companies have also got in on the act. EasyJet has promised to plant.

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Meat consumption will peak in 2020

Will meat consumption peak, like we used to think about peak oil? Noisy and passionate vegan demonstrations along with concerns for health and the environment have made this a very.

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A quarter of African food trade is intercontinental

As we know, the worldwide goods trade has fell by 2.4% in 2019, as a result of a resurgence in protectionism. Service trade growth, meanwhile, has suffered a several setback..

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When Ford concerts MacDonald’s coffee waste into spare parts

Ford is trying to do its part to combat climate change by recycling coffee waste from McDonald’s into car parts. The carmaker will collect food waste from the fast food.

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FAO warns of an invasion of locusts in the Horn of Africa

Despite good rainfall, the Horn of Africa could suffer from an invasion of pilgrim locusts, according to the FAO. Numbers of these insects are on the increase in numerous countries,.

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Could Bio aggravate global warming?

On December 13, 2010, Le Figaro  reproduced an article first published in the journal Nature contradicting all the received truths concerning bio agriculture, which in truth could have a negative.

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German climate change initiative

In collaboration with the FAO and UNDP, Germany has launched an initiative to fast track actions against climate change in the agriculture and land use sectors in developing countries. The.

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Ghana soil fertility map project by OCP

On 11 December, the OCP Foundation kicked off a project relating to the development of a soil fertility map, in partnership with the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA)..

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Global turnover of $3 billion for biostimulants

According to the 4th International Biostimulants Conference which took place in Barcelona in November, the global biostimulants market should reach turnover of $3 billion in 2021 (source: EBIC and Dunham.

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The price of farmland worldwide continues to grow, but at a slower rate

According to the Global Farmland Index 2019 by the property company Savills, the price of farmland has increased 12% per year worldwide over the past 16 years. The company studied.

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