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Pesticides: farming chemicals make insects sick at non-deadly doses – especially in hot weather

The various regulatory systems for approving pesticides in operation around the world are crude and flawed. This has long been clear to scientists and it is deeply worrying, as this regulation is supposed to protect people and the environment from harm.

The Conversation

Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle

Brazil's environmental agency levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking and their suppliers companies for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon

The Independent UK

Spreading crushed rock over farmland can remove CO₂ from the atmosphere if we do it right

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is naturally removed from the air when it reacts with certain types of rock. We can accelerate this process by crushing suitable rocks and spreading them over agricultural fields. This simple method, known as “enhanced rock weathering”, could vastly increase the rate of CO₂ removal from the…

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From Gaza to Chad, seeds find refuge in Arctic 'doomsday' vault

An Arctic seed vault designed to safeguard the world's plant diversity has received thousands of new samples, marking the largest number of depositors since 2020. The latest deposits, including Palestinian seeds, come amid growing concerns over conflict and climate change threatening food security.

Radio France Internationale

Struggle to track human bird flu cases

Public health decisions largely lie with farm owners who have reported outbreaks among their cattle or poultry

Salon

Covid Lessons Learned? UN Summit Mulls Plan For Healthy Planet, And Humans

The Covid-19 and Ebola outbreaks brought into stark relief the harms that can come to humans if we interfere too much with nature, placing ourselves in contact with animals carrying unknown pathogens.

International Business Times

Want amazing soy sauce? Head to Virginia

“If the land is good for wine, I expect it will be good for soy sauce"

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J&K: Farmers in Udhampur adopt Polyhouse farming for tremendous yields

Farmers in Udhampur have been witnessing skyrocketing crop yields due to the state-of-the-art polyhouse installed under HADP. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Bird flu spreads across US with dozens of cases now found in 6 states

The number of human infections has risen above 30 across the country as the virus continues to infect the nation’s poultry, livestock

The Independent UK

Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?

Cases of ‘bonebreak fever’ are on the rise, mostly in Latin America, Africa and south-east Asia. But incidences in Europe and the US are also being recorded – with an estimated 4 billion people at risk worldwide

The Guardian - UK

Mexico announces food and agriculture plan that could take the country back to the 1980s

Mexico's new president has announced an agriculture plan that could make the country's food production and distribution look a lot more like it did in the 1980s

The Independent UK

On Lake Erie, getting rid of problem algae starts with giving it less food

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae

The Independent UK

TV presenter Jimmy Doherty made a visiting professor at university

Doherty will do work for Anglia Ruskin University after its merger with a college known for teaching agriculture.

Evening Standard

Why your Halloween candy might cost more this year (and it’s not for the reason you may think)

Drought and other extreme weather has resulted in a global shortage of cocoa beans and massive prices this year

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The vast importance of water in farming

“We have to be smarter about what we grow, and we can be smarter about how we grow what we're growing”

The Guardian - US

Four egg farm workers appear to test positive for bird flu in Washington state

Washington is sixth state to detect H5N1 in workers, with farm in Franklin county source of known outbreak

Bangkok Post

Low Carbon Rice Seminar Sparks Sustainable Agriculture Solutions

On October 6th, the Future of Good Life team hosted the Low Carbon Rice Seminar, a student-led event that united key figures from Thailand

Radio France Internationale

French water supply contaminated with untested toxic chemicals, NGO warns

Dangerous chemicals are contaminating France's water supply at levels far worse than previously known, with dozens of toxic pesticide byproducts going unchecked, an environmental group is warning.

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Ongoing listeria recall has expanded

Some of the products were distributed to schools, according to a recent FSIS announcement

Radio France Internationale

Water crisis driven by climate change threatens global food production

The world’s supplies of fresh water can no longer be counted on due to a shift in rainfall patterns caused by climate change, a major report has warned. It's calling for global cooperation to address a problem that could put more than half of the world’s food production at risk…

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RFK Jr. Envisions Influential Role In Trump Administration

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s potential impact on American agriculture policy under a second Trump administration and the debate surrounding his suitability and ...

Salon

More suspected human bird flu cases

So far, the CDC has confirmed 20 human cases, with more awaiting confirmation

The Independent UK

RFK Jr. suggests he'll have a significant role on agriculture and health policy if Trump is elected

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