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Trump picks former White House aide Brooke Rollins to lead the USDA
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary,…
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Can regenerative farming save Europe’s peasant farmers?
By Annabel Murphy and Laura Tucker Regenerative farming may hold the key to solving Europe’s farming challenges by mitigating the…
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European rivers and lakes are polluted, water security is in danger
A damning report into the state of Europe’s surface and groundwaters just three years away from a clean-up deadline increases…
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Fresh Take: Hunting Invasive Lionfish In Dominica, A $4.5 Billion Chicken Industry Consolidation, And The Moldy Grain Coming Out Of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports
I’m back after my longest break from working in, well, my entire life, and feeling quite refreshed. How could I…
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Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Decarbonizing Food, And Especially Meat
A two-year-old pregnant dairy cow seen at Hillside Farms in Shavertown Pennsylvania. (Photo by Aimee … [+] Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via…
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Cutting air pollution could boost crop yields by up to 28 per cent
Analysis of air pollution and crop health via satellite imagery suggests that limiting emissions of nitrogen dioxide, a potent greenhouse…
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Farmers in England will bury burnt wood in fields to capture CO2
A large trial is underway to see how much CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere by burying a charcoal-like…
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Developing A DNA Test That Could Detect A Devastating Mango Fungus
Catalina Salgado-Salazar in her lab in Beltsville Maryland on March 27 2022. Catalina Salgado-Salaza Colombian mycologist Catalina Salgado-Salazar is helping…
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Fresh Take: Let’s Talk Food Waste, Protecting Meatpacking Workers, And What Does Better Food Policy Look Like?
I’m thinking a lot about food waste this week. Maybe it’s the millions upon millions of chickens, turkeys and egg-laying…
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Fresh Take: How Water Became A Weapon, The Caribbean’s Food Insecurity Problem, And From Blog To $25 Million Business
It’s been a busy week on the food and agriculture beat: There was the House Agriculture Committee hearing featuring top…
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