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SCIENCE / INNOVATION:
- Monsanto Says Next Breakthrough for Farmers Is a Friendly Fungus | Bloomberg
- Honey bee brood – the larvae and pupae of drones – has great potential as a food source. It is already eaten as a delicacy in many countries, including Mexico, Thailand and Australia. | ScienceDaily
- Another study (Norwegian) questions diet hypothesis that saturated fat is unhealthy. | ScienceDaily
- Oyster baskets that improve farming efficiency while growing a higher quality product are helping an Australian company | The Fish Site
- Agro Belogoria, Russia’s 4th largest pig producer and packer, launched its Genesus Duroc Pork | The Pig Site
- A total of 80 thousand visitors attended the Growtech Eurasia in Turkey last week. | HortiDaily
- Researchers at New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have used the CRISPR technology to produce cherry and roma tomato plants that produce ripe fruit two weeks faster than current methods. | The Packer
- Hydroponic farms are mushrooming in Hong Kong as consumers fret about food safety | Asia.NIKKEI
- US Army targets wool for sustainable fire resistant uniforms | Sheep Central
- Kribhco adjudged best producer of bio-fertilizer | Indian Cooperative
- Beauty Drinks to Become Billion-Dollar Market | US Agnet
- Australian researchers have discovered that the common Panic grasses could hold the secret to increasing the yields of cereal crops and help feed the world with increasing temperature extremes | Phys.org
- Cargill, BASF develop omega-3-rich canola | World-Grain
- Sugar plant to supply residual heat for Dutch tomato grower for expansion of greenhouse acreage by 35 hectares | HortiDaily
- How Africa can turn a food deficit to surplus; Water supplies and soil quality are key to meeting the threat of climate change to the continent | FT
- Sustainable building materials from the future? No problem. Learn about self-healing concrete, bioplastics, and synthetic spider silk. | The Boss Magazine
- Dewulf unveils giant four-row potato harvester for 2017 | Farmers Weekly UK
- Survey of New York City soil uncovers medicine-making microbes | ScienceDaily
- Magic mushroom chemical psilocybin could be key to treating depression | The Guardian
- NASA Developing Food Bars for Mars Missions | VOA News
- 3D printed meat technology could be the “next big advancement” for the protein industry, according to a research paper published by Meat and Livestock Australia | Global Meat News
- Institute on the Environment researchers produce map of farming households across the world | EurekAlert
- Plants produce, in total, an estimated million-plus organic chemicals, and each plant is believed to contain as many as 15,000, on average - how to identify them. | EurekAlert
- Startup to grow fresh 'super-local' food out of recycled shipping containers in Paris | Treehugger
- Open-source tools accelerate plant breeding in developing countries | Phys.org
- Teff growers of South Africa hope to export teff to Europe | Nutra Ingredients
SUSTAINABILITY / BIODIVERSITY:
- Today is World Soil Day | USDA
- World Soil Day: Advancing soil health through research | IFPRI
- Feed the Soil First, Then Feed the World | Agweb
- Soil and pulses can make major contributions to the challenge of feeding the world's growing population and combating climate change, especially when deployed together | FAO
- Government of Canada to Strengthen Environmental Research in Agriculture | Gov't Canada
- Monsanto is seeking to become "carbon neutral" by 2021 | AGree
- Mainstreaming biodiversity to guarantee food security and nutrition | Eco-business
- Coconut Diversity Under Threat | Business Insider
- Waste of food, natural resources, and human talent taking a toll on Mediterranean agriculture and rural development | FAO
- USDA awards $6.7 million for research to support healthy agroecosystems | EurekAlert
- Farmers and conservationists join forces for pollinator survival | Southwest Farm Press
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