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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Fertilizer, World Hunger, Climate Change,

Phosphorus in our pee - the new gold? | DW | 11.05.2020

Phosphorus is essential for growing crops, but global reserves are shrinking fast. Now res...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Dairy, Agriculture Global, Ag Asia / Pacific,

5,000-year-old milk protein points to importance of dairying in eastern Eurasia

By analyzing milk proteins extracted from calcified dental plaque, researchers from the Ma...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Rice, Soil Health, Irrigation, Livestock/Meat, Agriculture Global, Economics,

Integrated crop-livestock systems in paddy fields: New strategies for flooded rice nutrition

Worldwide, flooded rice cultivation has degraded soil quality, reducing rice yield and req...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Livestock/Meat, Agriculture Global, World Hunger,

Efforts to control livestock disease PPRV should focus on herd management style, not age

The risk of transmitting the virus PPRV, which produces a highly infectious and often fata...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Corn/Maize, Agriculture US, Agriculture Global,

Cahokia's rise parallels onset of corn agriculture

Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 40...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Economics, Sustainability, World Hunger, World Population, Ag Middle East,

Green-tech revolution through agripreneurs

It is unrealistic to expect smallholder farmers to deploy the latest technologies due to a...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Vegetables, Agriculture Global, Fruit, Food/Nutrition, Food Waste, World Hunger, Coronavirus/COVID,

What could a post-pandemic food revolution look like? | Living

Now could be the perfect time to get in touch with where our food comes from....

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Economics, Equipment/Machinery, Ag Australia/NZ, Coronavirus/COVID,

Higher seasonal output will not sustain sales of agricultural machinery

No industry will escape the economic pain of the Covid-19 pandemic....

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Rice, Agriculture Global, Economics, World Hunger, World Population, Coronavirus/COVID,

Going into agriculture? DA has P2.5B in loans for MSMEs, returning OFWs

The Department of Agriculture says the loans are zero interest, with technical assistance ...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, World Hunger, Ag Africa, World Population, Coronavirus/COVID,

Fighting a Pandemic in the Dark: How SolarAid is Helping Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa Respond to COVID-19 - NextBillion

In sub-Saharan Africa, 75% of health facilities have unreliable electricity. Here's how so...

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