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Strengthening wildlife numbers key to mitigate bird flu

The Invasive Species Council wants better bird protections to mitigate the impact of a deadly bird flu strain as Australia war games how to contain an outbreak.

AAP

‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers

Set up to conserve traditional seeds, the Genetic Resources Research Institute is now helping smallholders diversify with crops resilient to the rapid changes in climate

The Guardian - UK

Bird Flu Virus Detected In U.S. Pig For First Time, H5N1 Case In Oregon

Officials are investigating the case of the H5N1 virus on an Oregon farm where the virus was found in a pig.

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The first case of bird flu has been found in a pig at an Oregon farm

Human cases of H5N1 avian influenza have continued to climb, now reaching nearly 40

The Independent UK

First U.S. Pig Infected With Bird Flu Raises Concerns

First U.S. case of bird flu in swine detected in Oregon farm raises concerns about human transmission risk.

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1st US case of bird flu in a pig raises concerns over potential human threat

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu

The Independent UK

Warning of ‘monumental gap’ between farming budget and what is needed for nature

The Government has announced £5 billion for England’s farming budget over the next two years.

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South Australian tomato farms expected to remain in quarantine for several months

Virus threatening Australian tomato industry contained, but experts warn more infections inevitable

The Guardian - AU

Labor has ‘pressed pause’ in fight to contain spread of fire ants, invasive species council says

Fire ants ‘not taken seriously’ by federal government, experts say

The Guardian - AU

Pesticides: farming chemicals make insects sick at non-deadly doses – especially in hot weather

The various regulatory systems for approving pesticides in operation around the world are crude and flawed. This has long been clear to scientists and it is deeply worrying, as this regulation is supposed to protect people and the environment from harm.

The Conversation

Brazil fines meatpacking companies, including giant JBS, for buying illegally raised cattle

Brazil's environmental agency levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking and their suppliers companies for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested land in the Amazon

The Independent UK

Spreading crushed rock over farmland can remove CO₂ from the atmosphere if we do it right

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is naturally removed from the air when it reacts with certain types of rock. We can accelerate this process by crushing suitable rocks and spreading them over agricultural fields. This simple method, known as “enhanced rock weathering”, could vastly increase the rate of CO₂ removal from the…

The Conversation

From Gaza to Chad, seeds find refuge in Arctic 'doomsday' vault

An Arctic seed vault designed to safeguard the world's plant diversity has received thousands of new samples, marking the largest number of depositors since 2020. The latest deposits, including Palestinian seeds, come amid growing concerns over conflict and climate change threatening food security.

Radio France Internationale

Struggle to track human bird flu cases

Public health decisions largely lie with farm owners who have reported outbreaks among their cattle or poultry

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Covid Lessons Learned? UN Summit Mulls Plan For Healthy Planet, And Humans

The Covid-19 and Ebola outbreaks brought into stark relief the harms that can come to humans if we interfere too much with nature, placing ourselves in contact with animals carrying unknown pathogens.

Salon

Want amazing soy sauce? Head to Virginia

“If the land is good for wine, I expect it will be good for soy sauce"

Dynamite News

J&K: Farmers in Udhampur adopt Polyhouse farming for tremendous yields

Farmers in Udhampur have been witnessing skyrocketing crop yields due to the state-of-the-art polyhouse installed under HADP. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Bird flu spreads across US with dozens of cases now found in 6 states

The number of human infections has risen above 30 across the country as the virus continues to infect the nation’s poultry, livestock

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The Guardian - UK

Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest outbreak?

Cases of ‘bonebreak fever’ are on the rise, mostly in Latin America, Africa and south-east Asia. But incidences in Europe and the US are also being recorded – with an estimated 4 billion people at risk worldwide

The Independent UK

Mexico announces food and agriculture plan that could take the country back to the 1980s

Mexico's new president has announced an agriculture plan that could make the country's food production and distribution look a lot more like it did in the 1980s

The Independent UK

On Lake Erie, getting rid of problem algae starts with giving it less food

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae

Evening Standard

TV presenter Jimmy Doherty made a visiting professor at university

Doherty will do work for Anglia Ruskin University after its merger with a college known for teaching agriculture.

The Independent UK

Why your Halloween candy might cost more this year (and it’s not for the reason you may think)

Drought and other extreme weather has resulted in a global shortage of cocoa beans and massive prices this year

Salon

The vast importance of water in farming

“We have to be smarter about what we grow, and we can be smarter about how we grow what we're growing”

The Guardian - US

Four egg farm workers appear to test positive for bird flu in Washington state

Washington is sixth state to detect H5N1 in workers, with farm in Franklin county source of known outbreak

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