Editorial- Ensuring food safety and security

Ensuring food safety and security

Recently, issue of food poisoning in the country took another dimension from the usual accounts of bacterial, viral and fungal infestation of consumable agricultural produce like cassava, yam flour, beans, maize and peppers etc through rodents and other animals.

UN committee approves declaration on the rights of peasants

UN committee approves declaration on the rights of peasants

The UN has passed a resolution adopting a declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.

Climate change to disrupt agricultural productivity in the U.S., report

Climate change to disrupt agricultural productivity in the U.S., report

Climate change is affecting the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, and human health and welfare across the U.S. and its territories, warns a federal report released on November 23.

Images speak at the Farmers Field Day at Agbenti 1, near Badeggi in Niger State, FARO 60 and 61 Varieties

Group image at the Farmers Field Day at Agbenti 1, near Badeggi in Niger State, FARO 60 and 61 Varieties

Images speak at the Farmers Field Day at Agbenti 1, near Badeggi in Niger State, FARO 60 and 61 Varieties.

Press Statement- GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, HOMEF and other CSOs Condemn Efforts to Sway the Public to Accept Agricultural Biotechnology and Denounce Release of Genetically Modified Cotton into Nigeria

GMO-Free

The GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and over 35 other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in a statement made available to the media condemned efforts by government and biotech corporations to persuade Nigerians to accept agricultural biotechnology and denounced the registration and release of genetically modified (GM) cotton varieties (Maycho C567 BG II and Maycho C571 BG II) into the country.

Is this West Virginia farming community the model for a utopian way of life?

Is this West Virginia farming community the model for a utopian way of life?

If one family can't maintain a farm of 300 acres then maybe multiple families can... and so communal farming is born again in Berkeley, where 11 families living on common land are trialling a new way to preserve rural America

Joint 10,000gn for rams bred in Aberdeenshire

Suffolk ram lamb Birness Cracker sold for 10,000gn at the Stockton dispersal sale.

A joint top price of 10,000gn was paid for two Aberdeenshire-bred rams at the dispersal sale of the Stockton flock of pedigree Suffolk sheep.

Government must stop cheap post-Brexit food imports threatening UK farmers, MPs warn

Government must stop cheap post-Brexit food imports threatening UK farmers, MPs warn

Foreign food imports must be held to Britain’s high standards after Brexit or the nation’s farming community will be devastated, MPs have warned.

Australia's drought: The cancer eating away at farms

Australia's drought:

The worst drought in living memory is sweeping parts of eastern Australia, leaving farmers struggling to cope and asking questions about the future

Rice farming up to twice as bad for climate change as previously thought, study reveals

Rice is a vital crop that provides people with more calories in total than any other food

Levels of overlooked greenhouse gas are up to 45 times higher in fields that are only flooded intermittently.