In both conventional and organic farming, a high level of organic matter in the soil is one of the keys to achieving both environmental and financial performance. Control plots in.
Responding to the needs of both buyers and sellers, international trade in agricultural products is age-old. Some distribution networks and routes are short-lived, while others can last centuries before they.
Farms which sequester carbon perform better financially Regenerative and ecological agriculture is based on two convictions: That a massive transition towards regenerative agriculture will only be possible if farms become.
We are not yet able to decode the full genomes for thousands of varieties of wheat. However, genotyping chips can provide a “genetic identity card” for these varieties, a precious.
A team of American, Norwegian and Chinese researchers has shown that CO2 emissions have contributed to an upsurge in vegetation growth since 1981. But is this necessarily good news? Yes,.
Across the world, wherever eggs are produced on an industrial scale, only the females are used. Males are destroyed, by gassing or grinding, at birth. France and Germany have just.
There is no better place to get a sense of the bustling life of West African towns and cities than their major food markets. Nobody who has shopped in one.
Will blockchain be a breakthrough technology for the future or simply a source of false hopes? Revealed to the general public through cryptocurrencies, it is now subject to a wide.
The global spread of the coronavirus epidemic is significantly disrupting the functioning of agricultural markets. Operators fear a decrease in trade, while their most pressing problem is logistics. During the.
At the round table held on 27 February at the Paris International Agricultural Show, the Foundation for World Agriculture and Rurality (Fondation pour l’Agriculture et la Ruralité dans le Monde.
The 2020 edition of Le Déméter, a yearly survey of agriculture, food products and development in France, Europe and throughout the world, has just been published. This 400-page publication brings.
Following on from the Willagri report "Empowering women in rural Africa", here is the story of two women-focused development projects in Cameroon and Burkina Faso. Might women – who are.
According to UNDP figures, 31 out of 36 countries with a low HDI (Human Development Index) are in sub-Saharan Africa. The region is home to more than half the world's.
Decoding the genomes of around ten cultivated plant species is a varietal selection method. It will expedite the development of new varieties which are crucial for a successful agroecological transition.
The economic boom in West Africa is related to the agriculture and agri-food sectors. Feeding 500 million increasingly urbanised Africans by 2030 has kickstarted the growth of the agriculture and.
Since 2018, the African swine fever epidemic has been rife in Asian countries. Although harmless to people, this viral disease decimates more herds than any other and represents a major.
