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Topics: Vegetables, Beekeeping, Pest Control, Sustainability, Ag Europe, Tomato,

Pollen-deprived bumblebees may speed up plant blooming by biting leaves

In a pollen shortage, some bees nick holes in tomato leaves that accelerate flowering, and...

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Topics: Agriculture US, Pesticides, Forestry, Vegetables, Agriculture Global, Fruit, Pest Control, Fungicides, Potatoes, Research,

Insects' extreme farming methods offer us lessons to learn and oddities to avoid

Insects invented agriculture long before humans did. Can we learn anything from them?...

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Topics: Soil Health, Forestry, Sustainability, World Hunger,

Feature: Namibian gov't addresses hunger, soil erosion with tree-planting initiative

Helena Ndapewa, a subsistence farmer from a far-flung village in Ohangwena region in Namib...

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Topics: Soil Health, Agriculture Global,

Human activities boosted global soil erosion already 4,000 years ago

Soil erosion reduces the productivity of ecosystems, it changes nutrient cycles and it thu...

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Topics: Soil Health, Organic, Water, Fertilizer,

Nuclear Techniques Help Reveal High Rate of Soil Erosion in Benin

Harmless traces from nuclear testing more than half a century ago are helping researchers ...

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Topics: Soil Health, Water, Economics, Climate Change,

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/18/us-dust-bowl-conditions-likely-to-reoccur-great-plains

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Topics: Soil Health, Education U.S. West, Research, Climate Change,

Study Finds Vegetation Changes can Outweigh Climate Change

Worldwide, grasslands that feed a majority of the grazing animals have been changing into ...

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Kim Bremmer
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Topics: Wheat, Corn/Maize, Rice, GMO's, Fertilizer,

GM crops reduce the use of pesticides, often increase yield, and now improve nitrogen use efficiency. This study and meta-analysis focused on rice, maize and wheat...if these three crops were planted using GM varieties worldwide, we would feed 800 million more people and use less nitrogen along the way.

Genetically modified crops are superior in their nitrogen use efficien

Genetically modified crops are superior in their nitrogen use efficiency-A meta-analysis o...

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Water, Regenerative Agriculture,

Bamboo grove initiative to surmount water scarcity in Latur

The river rejuvenation project is being implemented by Kalam Farmer Producer Company...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Soil Health, Forestry,

The relationship between Andean vegetation, precipitation and soil erosion

Plants may stabilize slopes, yet rainfall often intensifies soil erosion. Until now, just ...

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