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2024.02.15
Taiwan helps Fiji make strides in agriculture development
Taiwan’s promotion of "fruit diplomacy" in Fiji has provided advanced technology to support the Pacific Island nation’s agriculture.
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2024.02.07
Smart agriculture enhanced with new Digital Agriculture and Extension Centre
The University of Missouri has launched the Digital Agriculture and Extension Centre (DAREC) to boost research, education, and outreach in smart agriculture.
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2024.02.07
Taiwan's Science and Technology agency plans major disruptions to biomedicine, agriculture
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has announced research to revolutionize biomedicine and agriculture with AI.
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2024.02.07
Europe farmers protests: EU scraps plans to halve pesticide use
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced plans to scrap a proposal halving pesticide use across the EU.
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2024.02.06
Urban Farming Shows Higher Carbon Footprint than Conventional Agriculture
A new study shows that produce from urban agriculture has six times the carbon footprint of conventional farms when emissions are linked to food alone
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2024.02.06
Bulgaria’s farmers are joining Europe-wide protests
Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, on Monday to complain of what they called “the total failure” of the government to meet the mounting challenges of the agricultural sector.
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2024.02.06
Farmers in Greece dump apples and chestnuts in Europe's latest agriculture protest
In recent months, similar protests have swept Europe as farmers on the continent take their grievances over inflation, foreign competition and the costs of combating climate change to the streets.
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2024.02.06
Growing Ontario's agriculture and food export markets
The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing an additional $6 million in the Grow Ontario Market Initiative to help agri-food businesses and industry organizations expand their sales and grow their markets.
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2024.02.06
African Agriculture talks alfalfa farming and boosting food security in the continent’s Sahel region
Food insecurity is a perennial problem for the Sahel region in West Africa.
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2024.02.06
Catalonia cuts water use by 80% in agriculture, 5% in homes amid record drought
Residents of the eastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars and filling up empty swimming pools under a raft of measures announced on Thursday to alleviate the region's worst drought on record.