In recent years climate change has gone from being a probability to becoming a reality that determines, for better or worse, our daily lives. As a consequence, climate change and climate breakdown hav...
A researcher from the University of Copenhagen has developed an algorithm that, in tandem with a sensor, makes it possible to distinguish crop-harming insects from helpful ones that pollinate and cont...
Sales of pesticides have dropped by about 1/3 (-32%) in the last decade in Italian agriculture which ranks as the greenest in Europe. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti on Eurostat da...
As the world’s number one banana exporter, Ecuador is on high alert for its vital crop as its neighbor Peru is grappling with an outbreak of a fungus deadly to that particular crop. Ecuador is sandwic...
On April 23, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing for public comment the proposed interim decision (PID) for aminopyralid, a pyridine herbicide used to control broadleaf weeds an...
The Peruvian Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI) has prohibited the registration, importation, local formulation, distribution, marketing and use of commercial formulations of pe...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) draft biological opinion for the registration of malathion, an insecticide that i...
According to the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security, the term food security means all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious...
Pesticide use in Hungary averaged 1.5 kg per hectare in 2019, around the mid-range in a comparison with other European Union member states, news agency MTI reports, citing data compiled by the Central...
Various beetle species have gobbled through grain stores and weakened food production worldwide since ancient times. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a better way of ta...
The question of whether the increased adoption of genetically engineered (GE) crops has led farmers to use more or fewer pesticides is one of the most controversial questions confronting agricultural ...
Stem rust is a devastating disease of cereal crops, including barley, one of the first domesticated crops in agriculture and the fourth most widely grown crop in the world. Barley is unique because it...
