Earthworms help produce as much grain as Russia
The humble creatures — which break down organic matter and aerate soils — contribute to as much as 6.5 per cent of the world’s grain harvests.
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What’s worse for the birds in North Dakota — gas land or biofuel crops?
A new study based on breeding bird surveys found that grassland birds reacted even more negatively to corn and soybean fields than they did to land used for oil and gas development.
This hellish summer is taking a toll on your favourite foods
A perfect storm of extreme weather and war has hit Northern Hemisphere crops like wheat, peaches and olives. Welcome to the increasingly precarious future of food.
Russia is holding millions of people’s food supply hostage
The increased food price volatility is likely to persist as long as Russia puts the global food supply under deliberate stress.
Locust invasion in Afghanistan’s breadbasket threatens wheat harvest
With 20 million people at the highest risk of famine, farmers are desperately trying to kill the pests before vast swarms form.
‘Holy grail’ wheat gene find could feed our overheated world
Harvests that form a vital element of the diets of 4.5 billion people are being devastated by global heating. Now research has found a key to create a heat-resistant variety.
World food crisis fuels rise in forced child marriages
Plan International Canada said it has seen a worrying increase in the number of teenage girls in the developing world being forced into marriage because their families cannot afford to feed them.
‘Perfect storm’ of crises widening inequality, UN boss says
António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.
How the Russia-Ukraine war triggered a food crisis
Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries.
Ukraine minister says Russia raiding Ukraine wheat stores for export
Ukraine's agriculture minister has told Ottawa that Russia is raiding its grain stores and selling Ukrainian wheat covertly on the international market.
Russia’s war created a global hunger disaster. Climate crisis is ramping it up
Climate and geopolitical insults to the global food system have a way of intersecting and feeding into each other in hellish ways.
How war in the world’s breadbasket ‘changes everything’
“Ukraine has what may be the richest soil in the world,” writes University of Georgia historian Scott Reynolds Nelson in his astonishing new book Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.
Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers in no hurry to pivot
Russia’s war in Ukraine could mean changes for Ed Kessel’s farm along a quiet stretch of western North Dakota.
UN says women pay highest price in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine
Women and girls pay the highest price in all crises and conflicts from Myanmar and Afghanistan to the Sahel and Haiti, and “the horrifying war in Ukraine now joins that list,” the head of the U.N. women’s agency said on Monday, March 14, 2022.
Russians targeting Ukrainian food supply such as grain silos and ports: minister
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has warned that Russian forces are targeting Ukrainians' food supply, including their stores of grain.