Samburu, Kenya (AFP) Oct 31, 2025 "God, God, God, protect them," chanted two herders, their eyes following a dozen camels rushing toward acacia trees, oblivious to the dry riverbed in northern Kenya where it hasn't rained since April. Sitting on the edge of a nearby well, Chapan Lolpusike recounted how his cows and oxen "all died" following the worst drought in four decades, caused by a succession of poor rainfall in 2021 an| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Ely, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 31, 2025 Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of eastern England. Growing rice "has not been done before in the UK", said Mitschunas, a field ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). But as temperatures warm due to climate change, "it's not such a crazy idea beca| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 2, 2025 - Record heavy rains and flooding in central Vietnam this week have killed 35 people, disaster management officials said Sunday, with five more still missing in the deluge.| Seed Daily
Mainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Nitrogen-based fertilizers are essential for modern agriculture, and compounds like ammonia and urea are also widely used in industry. However, their conventional production and use pose major environmental challenges. The industrial synthesis of ammonia through the Haber-Bosch process consumes vast amounts of energy, while excessive fertilizer runoff contaminates soil and water. Moreover,| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 22, 2025 Raising groundwater levels and enriching soils with biochar could sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farmed peatlands without sacrificing crop productivity, according to new research from Bangor University. The study, published in Biochar (2025), examined how adjusting the water table and applying biochar - a carbon-rich material produced from plant biomass - influence emissions| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Basra, Iraq (AFP) Oct 17, 2025 Iraqi farmer Umm Ali has watched her poultry die as salinity levels in the country's south hit record highs, rendering already scarce water unfit for human consumption and killing livestock. "We used to drink, wash and cook with water from the river, but now it's hurting us," said Umm Ali, 40, who lives in the once watery Al-Mashab marshes of southern Iraq's Basra province. This season a| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Santa Cruz, Bolivia (AFP) Oct 17, 2025 In the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia's breadbasket, farmers hope a change in government will bring an end to hobbling fuel shortages, allowing their sector to become the savior of a struggling economy. Snaking lines of cars and trucks at gas stations have become a common sight in the dollar-starved South American country, and many farmers rely on fuel bought at great expense on the black| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Cordova, Maryland, United States (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - The US soybean harvest is underway and in rural Maryland, farmer Travis Hutchison cracks open a pod to show how a field is nearly dry enough for reaping.| Seed Daily
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London, UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of global food production on the survival of other species. Their analysis shows that between 700 and 1,100 vertebrate species face extinction in the next 100 years without changes in global land-use for agriculture. This estimate likely understates the scale of impact, as it does not account for future population| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 - Australian researchers have created tiny compartments to help supercharge photosynthesis, potentially boosting wheat and rice yields while slashing water and nitrogen use. Researchers from Ass| Seed Daily
Paris (AFP) June 18, 2025 - Climate change is on track to reduce by 11 percent in 2100 the yields that today provide two-thirds of humanity's calories from crops, even taking into account adaptation to a warming world, scientists said Wednesday.| Seed Daily
Shubra Balula, Egypt (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and th| Seed Daily
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - In a new paper in Nature, 21 scientists outline strategies to transform global food systems as a top priority to curb land degradation, mitigate climate change, and protect biodiversity. Their model| Seed Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 - An international team of scientists has traced the evolutionary origin of the modern potato to a natural hybridization event between wild tomato relatives and Etuberosum species in South America rou| Seed Daily
Abuja (AFP) Aug 8, 2025 - If Earthlings are ever going to colonise Mars, they won't be able to do so on an empty stomach - and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a helping of Egusi soup, a Nigerian staple, might just hit the spot.| Seed Daily
Paris (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 - France's top constitutional authority on Thursday blocked a law that would allow the reintroduction of a pesticide virulently opposed by environmental groups.| Seed Daily
Addis Ababa (AFP) June 26, 2025 - Almost six million donkeys are slaughtered annually for Chinese medicine, with severe knock-on effects for African villagers who rely on the animals, a UK-based charity said on Thursday.| Seed Daily
