Agriculture in parts of sub-Saharan Africa must undergo significant transformation if it is to continue to produce key food crops, according to a new study published today in Nature Climate Change.
Environment
Mar 7, 2016
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The first national study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they're disappearing in many of the country's most important farmlands—including California's Central Valley, the Midwest's corn belt, and the Mississippi River valley.
Ecology
Dec 21, 2015
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One of the thorniest questions in economic development is why sub-Saharan Africa is home to most of the world's extreme poor, who suffer from persistent, grinding poverty that can last for generations.
Environment
Nov 24, 2015
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A comprehensive study finds organic agriculture is more profitable for farmers than conventional agriculture.
Ecology
Jun 1, 2015
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As dairy farmers across Europe anxiously await the lifting of EU milk quotas in April this year, new research from the University of Bristol, UK has revealed the antiquity of dairy farming in a region famous for its dairy ...
Archaeology
Jan 16, 2015
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A new Stanford study finds that due to an average 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming expected by 2040, yields of wheat and barley across Europe will drop more than 20 percent.
Environment
May 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A computer simulation created and run by a pair of researchers at Humboldt State University, in California shows that coffee growers in Jamaica could improve coffee harvests if they planted trees in some of ...
A new study, co-authored by a Harvard scientist, offers the first-ever evidence that fetal sex can affect the amount of milk cows produce, a finding that could have major economic implications for U.S. dairy farmers.
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2014
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Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun, a forthcoming ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2013
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Hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived side-by-side for more than 2,000 years in Central Europe, before the hunter-gatherer communities died out or were absorbed into the farming population.
Archaeology
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