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Planned reforms of EU regulations on genetically modified crops are now in question after a Belgian bid to forge an inter-governmental agreement on liberalisation for new technologies fell flat yesterday. The outgoing EU Council presidency holder had sought to assuage the concerns of Poland and others by suggesting tweaks that would limit the ability of biotech firms to patent, and thereby hold a monopoly over, plant strains created using new gene-editing tools. But Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia all signalled they would oppose even the latest compromise proposal, whi...
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Belgium hopes to secure this week an inter-governmental agreement on new rules for genetically modified (GM) crops, while green groups and scientists have warned that proposals under discussion amount to a dangerous liberalisation. The development of precise new genome editing techniques (NGTs) in the 20 years since the current GMO Directive took effect prompted the European Commission to propose last year a regulatory overhaul that treats a newly defined ‘category ’ GM plants as broadly equivalent to conventional crops. Diplomats are set to convene tomorrow (26 June) to discuss a compromise p...
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By Peter CATTERALL Hudian (Chine) (AFP) - Bao Mingchen montre affligé le tuyau qui irrigue habituellement ses cultures: plus aucune eau ne s'en échappe et le sol est craquelé par la sécheresse qui frappe le centre de la Chine. "Tout est sec", déclare cet agriculteur à l'AFP en fumant une cigarette et en marchant le long d'une rizière près de sa maison à Hudian, une modeste localité de la province du Henan. Ses plants de riz sont toujours d'un vert éclatant. Mais les cultivateurs commencent à se demander combien de temps ils vont encore pouvoir tenir sans précipitations, affirme M. Bao. La Chin...
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By Andy BallGerald FlynnVutha Srey This is the second part of a Mongabay series about challenges faced by Cambodia’s small-scale fishers along the coast. Read Part One. KOH KONG & PREAH SIHANOUK, Cambodia — By 11 a.m., the sun was already beating down on Daem Thkov. The chatter of tourists on the nearby beach floated on the gentle sea breeze through the fishing village on the Cambodian island of Koh Rong. But behind the tranquil scenes of turquoise waters, white sands and morning cocktails, an uncertainty has gripped those who call Daem Thkov home. What the tourists sipping cocktails on the be...
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In the last six months of 2023, only 150 millimetres of rain fell on Sicily, the Italian island that is twice the size of some countries. A few months later, the region's government declared a state of emergency due to the drought. Experts warned it could be the third worst water crisis the island has ever seen. With swathes of the population, and the economy, reliant on agriculture, a lack of water is has widespread consequences. Climate change is leaving many parts of southern Europe in drought - is it solely to blame for Sicily's water crisis? Or is the chronic lack of funding southern Ital...
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The land in my home in Ghana is rich. It has diamonds and gold. It has oil and natural gas. It can grow coffee and a lot, a whole lot, of cocoa beans here in the Ahafo region. But today, it’s not so easy to be a cocoa farmer, especially with dying crops and a shrinking harvest that has made farming more difficult and turned cocoa into an increasingly expensive commodity. I know cocoa farming like the back of my hand. I am a 69-year-old cocoa farmer from a cocoa farming family (my 105-year-old father was also a cocoa farmer). I am also an educator and a certified teacher of agroscience, and wha...
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Scientists in Switzerland have invented a way to make chocolate healthier and more sustainable. No Oompa Loompas, chocolate rivers or magical gum were involved in the making of this new treat - simply a fresh look at the whole cocoa fruit. Typically, only cocoa beans and pulp are extracted for our chocolate bars. But researchers at the ETH Zurich federal technology institute have discovered that the cocoa pod husk can be used too, as a replacement for granulated sugar. Their new recipe involves taking what’s known as the endocarp, the inner layer of the fruit shell, and mixing it with some of ...
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As sea levels and temperatures rise, weather events worsen, and an increasing number of species face extinction, it’s more important than ever that we do more than pay lip service to reducing our environmental footprint — and that we do it without meat in our mouths. We could have once been forgiven for not realising that animal agriculture — which encompasses not only meat but also egg and dairy production and co-products like leather and wool — is a leading driver of climate destruction, second only to fossil fuels. But now it seems that every second scientific study warns us of the huge env...
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Desperate Mexican villagers are taking direct action on commercial avocado farms that are drying up streams while a severe drought drags on. Rivers and even whole lakes are disappearing in the once green and lush state of Michoacan, in the mountains west of Mexico City. Drought has combined with a surge in the use of water for the country’s lucrative export crops, led by avocados. In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacan town of Villa Madero organised teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds. A pot...
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Europe's spring has so far proven far colder than predicted, and the implications for the continent's food supply are starting to become a real worry. Since mid-April the Balkan states have seen temperatures plunge from near-record highs to unseasonal lows, bringing snow and ice to much of the region. "It was very warm, we even had temperatures of up to 30 one day, and then all of a sudden it dropped to minus. The fruits and all of this are all destroyed, it's over, if there are any apples left it will be good," said Franjo Crnković, a fruit farmer in Croatia. And in Poland, many strawberry fa...
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