Author: Brandon Moss
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Curious Kids: what happens when fruit gets ripe?
When the seeds are ready, the fruit become ripe and good-looking, making animals keen to eat them. When the fruit are ripe they become ... -
South Africa: Horticulture boosts employment in agricultural sector
Expansion in most agricultural South African subsectors has been export-driven, particularly in the horticultural sector, which is labour-intensive. That means that expansion also brings ... -
Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer’s heatwave in NZ
As the Australian heatwave is spilling across the Tasman and pushing up temperatures in New Zealand, we take a look at the conditions that caused ... -
Farmed salmon is now a staple in diets – but what they eat matters too
Salmon is not only tasty but is prized for being low fat and high in rich omega-3 oils. In recent times, salmon has been ... -
New study urges smarter use of small pelagic species to strengthen food security
According to a new FAO working paper investigating an array of species and related livelihoods that too often are undervalued, small freshwater fish around Africa ... -
Weather challenges create yield questions in the Midwest
With less than half the corn crop and less than a fourth of the soybean crop planted by June 1 this year, farmers are ... -
One million new cashew trees for coastal Kenya
With funding from the Visegrad group countries – Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland – and the European Union, Farm Africa is embarking on ... -
Child labour: 108 million children work in agriculture
Worldwide, more than 150 million children are still trapped in child labour, with almost half of them working in hazardous child labour. In a ... -
Animal products: Companies claim patents from feed to fork
European patent laws prohibit patents on animals derived from conventional breeding. However, companies are increasingly trying to circumvent these prohibitions by filing patent applications ... -
Over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, UN
Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have access to safe drinking water and 4.2 billion people do not have safely managed ...
