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Cassava Plant Could Help African Farmers Cope With Climate Change
Calling cassava “the Rambo of food crops,” scientists said the long-neglected root becomes even more productive in hotter temperatures...
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Superbug Bred on Farms
It’s long been suspected that administering large amounts of antibiotics to livestock promotes antibiotic resistance. Now a new study...
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Lab-Grown Meat Is First Step to Artificial Hamburger
Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first...
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Organic Foods Can Be Loaded With Arsenic
As virtuous as you might feel when you choose organic foods sweetened with brown rice syrup instead of high-fructose...
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500 Million Children ‘Stunted By Hunger’
Half a billion children could grow up physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years because they do...
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Does Sending Food Aid to Struggling Nations Do More Harm Than Good?
In a study just released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, economists Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian find...
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U.N. Reports World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel as Population Soars
As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly 9 billion by 2040 from 7 billion now, and...
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The ‘Microplastic’ Threat to Our Foodchain
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain,...
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Barley Adapts to Climate Change
The upsurge in droughts is one of the main consequences of climate change, and affects crops in particular. However,...
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Scientists Developing Salt-Tolerant Rice
Scientists are developing a salt-resistant variety of rice, a move prompted, in part, by last year’s Japan tsunami, which...