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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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Palominas (United States) (AFP) - John Ladd, who says he could ride a horse before he could walk, is a fourth-generation rancher from a family that arrived in Arizona when the border between Mexico and the United States was just a line on the map. Now he views that frontier -- and the thousands of people who spill across it every day -- as a threat to his whole way of life. "It rules how we run the ranch now, and that isn't the most effective way," he told AFP. Ladd's sprawling cattle farm runs right up against the wall that -- at least in this stretch -- separates Mexico from the United State...
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Demand for octopus as food has grown significantly in recent decades. Yet with concerns around overfishing restricting the number of wild octopuses caught, businesses have been researching how they can farm them. Crucially, octopuses are naturally solitary animals who will inevitably suffer in farm conditions. Confined in cramped indoor tanks of water, these intelligent, unique and sentient wild animals would cause them immense distress, causing aggression, and ultimately even cannibalism. They are also carnivorous, meaning they need to be fed wild fish in captivity — an unsustainable practice...
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Given the press, you’d be forgiven for thinking that reducing cattle numbers and moving to a plant-based diet is a climate solution up there with electric vehicles and offshore wind. Billions of dollars and euros and celebrity endorsements have been invested in plant-based and alternative protein startups. “Cows create global warming” is a truism of our time, shared by almost all right-thinking people. The emerging truth appears different. Not only is the climate impact of cattle confused and overblown — properly managed, grazing cows and sheep can be a climate and biodiversity solution. Meanw...
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A draft law designed to help restore Europe’s degraded soils to health has survived a vote in the European Parliament, but only after it was stripped of legally binding targets and monitoring requirements were significantly watered down or removed entirely. The fate of the Soil Monitoring Law was by no means assured, with several key pieces of European Green Deal legislation having already been either shelved or delayed indefinitely in the run up to EU elections and amid angry protests by farmers. But in a plenary vote on Wednesday (10 April) evening, a proposal by the conservative and nationa...
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It’s not a secret that farmers and the agricultural sector are facing a huge number of overlapping environmental crises right now. Temperature change, increasingly extreme weather events, and accelerating natural disasters threaten crop yield, soil health, the length of growing seasons, and general productivity. These changes necessarily have profound economic effects on individual farmers and the industry at large, and that reality is only compounded by the needs of a growing global population that must be fed. Farms and farming are an integral part of a far-reaching climate solution, but the...
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Frost shimmers in the crown of a birch tree as dozens of men crawl out of cars, vans and jeeps. They hang guns on their backs and trudge through the snow, their breath whirling in the freezing air. In scattered formation, the hunters surround a forest near Suursoo, 25 kilometres from Estonia’s capital Tallinn. It’s January, 20 degrees below zero - perfect weather for a wolf hunt. A tracker stalks paw prints deep into the forest and the others follow his movements through an app. Suddenly, the radio crackles. “Get ready!” But amidst a flurry of shots, the wolves escape. They will live to see an...
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Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers. The boxy robot - named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North Sea coast - is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime colour. On a windy spring morning, the robot trundles along rows of yellow and red 'goudstuk' tulips, checking each plant and, when necessary, killing diseased bulbs to prevent the spread of the tulip-breaking virus. The dead bulbs are removed from healthy ones in a sorting warehouse a...
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The Spanish region of Catalonia is experiencing one of the worst droughts in living memory. At no point in the last century have water shortages been so severe. Last month, officials in the northeast Spanish region declared a drought emergency, with reservoirs that serve six million people - including the population of Barcelona - under 16 percent of their capacity - a historic low. Spain has seen three years of below-average rainfall amid record high temperatures, and conditions are only expected to get worse because of climate change, which is predicted to impact the Mediterranean area faste...
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