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Sustainable small-scale fisheries can help people and the planet

Artisanal fishing can improve livelihoods, boost nutrition and strengthen food systems, but fishers’ input is needed at local, national and global levels.

Grains vs Biodiversity: Germany’s new, greener govt stages balancing act

Alarmed by the prospect of global food shortages due to the conflict in Ukraine, the EU wants to get as much land in Europe as possible turned over to grains, even at the cost of biodiversity.

Lab grown wood could mean no more deforestation, say scientists

Tables and chairs grown in a lab could help to slow deforestation, according to a study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Heavy rain boosts Ivory Coast cocoa mid-crop, but raises fears of mould

Heavy rain in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week will spur growth of the April-to-September

Insect decline could massively increase food bills, warn scientists

The number of flying insects has declined by nearly 60 per cent in less than 20 years, an alarming new survey has found.

‘Forever chemicals’ may have polluted 20m acres of US cropland, study says

PFAS-tainted sewage sludge is used as fertilizer in fields and report finds that about 20m acres of cropland could be contaminated

North Korea mobilises office workers to fight drought amid food shortages

North Korea’s office workers and factory labourers have been dispatched to farming areas around the country to join a fight against drought.

Nature-Based Agroecology Is Gaining Momentum as a Key Climate Solution

Responsible for roughly one-third of the world’s carbon emissions, the global food system is one of the key places for transformative action.

NewBees – Robotic Pollinator | Solar Powered Honey Bees..!

If we carry on with chemically intensive agriculture model, it is quite possible that we may affect our pollinating insects to such a degree that we reach a global “pollination crisis”.

Microplastics found in human blood for first time

The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs