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2021/08/02
CAN FOOD SYSTEMS REALLY GET TO NET ZERO?
Around the world, achieving net zero emissions by the middle of this century has become a rallying cry to keep climate change in check and avoid its worst impacts.
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2021/07/28
Unusual cold weather in Brazil sends coffee prices soaring
Last week’s severe frosts caused extensive damage to fields in Brazil, the world’s largest producer of coffee.
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2021/07/27
Tractorisation in India high, but agriculture mechanisation low
Farmers in India have limited access to modern machinery. Many farmers still rely on traditional farming techniques. Technological interventions in farming can usher massive changes.
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2021/07/26
Fabian agriculture damage hits P7.18 million
Initial damage to agriculture due to rains spawned by Typhoon Fabian and the southwest monsoon was estimated at P7.18 million, data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA)-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operation Center showed.
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2021/07/23
'Ready to talk to farmers': Agriculture minister ahead of Jantar Mantar protests
Farmers are protesting against the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act.
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2021/07/22
Israelis to enjoy more, cheaper produce with new agriculture reform
Israel will recognize European standards for fruits and vegetables • regulation of products imported from Europe will be reduced
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2021/07/21
World’s Biggest Beef Exporters To Defend Animal Agriculture At UN Summit
It comes after a host of media outlets and scientists blamed the meat industry in the region for causing devastating deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.
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2021/07/20
Technology has big role to play in making agriculture climate-smart
For centuries, farmers in India could count on groundwater to irrigate their fields. That has changed dramatically just in the past decade as the water table dropped and farmers found themselves paying to irrigate their fields.
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2021/07/19
Germany confirms ASF in domestic pigs for first time
Germany's agricultural ministry has confirmed the country's first cases of African swine fever (ASF) in domestic pigs.
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2021/07/16
UK meat consumption must be reduced by 30%, food strategy says
The government is being urged to set a target to help reduce the nation's meat consumption by 30% within 10 years, the new National Food Strategy says.