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Rice feeds nearly half the world’s population, but the way we grow it has left a surprisingly high methane footprint. Of the 42 per cent of global methane emissions that agriculture accounts for, eight per cent comes from rice cultivation, according to a report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance. Farmers produce rice by flooding their paddy fields, which creates anaerobic conditions where microorganisms emit methane \- a powerful greenhouse gas with 80 times the heating capacity of CO2 for the first 20 years after it is emitted. Methane’s potency in the short term makes it a significant...
Euronews (English)
“My community is my inspiration,” says 17-year-old Beyza, an Earth Prize runner-up. “In Türkiye, we are living the effects of climate change. This region was Mesopotamia, where agriculture and civilisation was born, but now people are struggling with climate change and drought.” While many young people march to demand climate action, Beyza has leveraged her scientific mind by developing a “drought-defying plasma-powered crop solution”. “It’s not good to watch when the big governments can solve these issues - but we are trying to do that and not them,” says 18-year-old Diyar, who is working on ...
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“Farmers are not against ecologists, in fact it’s the opposite - we want really high ecological standards in Europe,” Jean Matthieu Thévenot, a 30-year-old farmer in the French Basque Country, tells Euronews Green. “As farmers, we are the first impacted by climate change because of the weather. We are also the first people impacted by pesticides \- farmers are dying from cancer due to this.” As a representative on climate issues for European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) - a confederation of unions representing small-scale farmers \- he’s working with governments and institutions to streng...
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Many South Florida residents remember with grief a day in the early '00s when the government came for their citrus trees. "They didn't ask politely, 'Can we please come in and take your trees?' No, they said, we're taking the trees," one Orange County resident recalled. Armed with chainsaws and woodchippers, contractors hired by the Florida Department of Agriculture were tasked with destroying any citrus trees—healthy grapefruit, lime, lemon, orange, or tangerine trees—that were within 1,900 feet of a citrus tree infected with canker. Among the casualties of the canker war were my grandmother'...
Reason
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...
AFP (Français)
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...
Mongabay
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...
Euronews (English)
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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