The latest news from the agricultural sector
2022-08-08
Tonnes of South African citrus fruit stranded in EU ports over dispute
South Africa has referred the matter to the World Trade Organisation. Read more
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2022-08-08
Misleading beer festival video claims to show Italian farmers' protest
The footage actually shows an organised tractor beer festival that celebrates the local agriculture industry. Read more
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2022-08-06
Ukraine has a unique seed collection that could be ‘lost forever’
Ukrainian grain ships are leaving again, but the country’s seed bank is still in danger. Here's why its diverse contents are so vital. Read more
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2022-08-05
'Tragic situation': Rice paddies dry up in Italy amid record drought
The future of Italian risotto in the Po Valley is in peril as paddy fields dry up and turn salty amid a historic drought. Read more
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2022-08-04
Cameroon: Greenhouse farm to tackle global food insecurity
In Africa, greenhouse farming is proving a way of fighting food insecurity and high food prices caused by the Ukrainian war. In Cameroon, this agricultural technique — cultivating crops in an enclosed... Read more
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2022-08-03
Aid agencies struggle to keep world's poorest fed
Food and fuel prices are surging because of Russia's war in Ukraine, and some of the world's poorest regions are being hit hard. In eastern Africa, a severe drought adds to the crisis. A food used to... Read more
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2022-08-02
2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report: Repurpose agricultural subsidies to make healthy diets affordable, reduce rising hunger
Impacts from COVID-19, climate change, and conflicts including the Russia-Ukraine war continue to push more people into food insecurity. Read more
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2022-07-29
German farmers eye poor harvest, urge freeing up fallow land
The head of Germany's largest farmers group says dry and hot conditions will likely mean heavily reduced harvests in some regions. He urged the freeing up of unplanted land to help ease a world food... Read more
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2022-07-29
Tug-of-war: Ukraine celebrates its tank-towing farmers
Ukrainian tractor driver Vitaliy Denysenko grins as he pulls a 1970s Russian MT-LB tank around a field in the Kharkiv region, where it was left during the hasty Russian withdrawal at the end of March... Read more
2022-07-29
Feeling the heat: the cost of Italy's worst drought in decades
A lack of rain linked to climate change has led to Italy's worst drought in 70 years. Euronews' Julian Gomez visited three of north Italy's most badly affected regions to see for himself both the... Read more
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2022-07-29
Why is this Basque farmer fighting to revive this colourful corn?
In the 1950s, the introduction of hybrid corn varieties made the traditional Basque corn virtually extinct. Now a group of farmers are reviving it. Read more
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2022-07-28
Earth Overshoot Day 2022: Humanity has already used its resources for the year
We are just halfway through the year, and humanity has already used up all the resources the Earth can sustainably produce. From now on, we are borrowing from the future. Read more
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