News tagged with farming techniques
Climate change threatens S.Africa's rooibos tea
Farm workers swing their sickles through red branches, bundling them up before laying them out in the sunshine to dry.
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Teaching skills key to selection of a successful model farmer
Farmer trainers should be selected based on their interest and ability to teach others rather than on their successes in implementing farming techniques, shows a new study led by Steve Franzel, a scientist at the World Agroforestry ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Report shows more US farmers relying on Internet
(AP) -- Think of farms and images of tractors and combines come to mind. But what about laptops, smart phones and tablets?
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Melting glaciers signal climate change in Bolivia
Scientists and peasants combine traditional farming techniques and cutting-edge research to grow food sustainably in the high Andes, where the ecology is rapidly changing.
Aug 01, 2011 |
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UN calls for eco-friendly farming to boost yields
The United Nations food agency on Monday called for greater use of environmentally sustainable techniques by poor farmers in order to increase crop intensity to feed the world's growing population.
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Study shows genetic rice breeding goes back 10,000 years
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Masanori Yamasaki and colleagues from Kobe University in Japan, describe how they analyzed the genomes of severa ...
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Agricultural methods of early civilizations may have altered global climate, study suggests
Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2009 |
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