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B.C. fruit farms prepared for devastating crop yields this summer
2024-03-12 by in Canada's National ObserverOne of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before any peaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees.
Tagged under: Collapse | Agriculture | Canada | Trees
Further wet weather raises fears of harvest catastrophe - Farmers Weekly
2024-03-12 in Farmers WeeklyFurther heavy rainfall over the last fortnight is increasing farmers’ concerns of an impending harvest catastrophe. Following relentless rain since
Tagged under: Food Production and Consumption | Collapse | UK | Agriculture
Tipping Points Report shows humanity on ‘disastrous trajectory’ - The Engineer
2023-12-06 by The Engineer in The EngineerHumanity is on the verge of triggering at least five major tipping points which could see the collapse of ice sheets, ecosystems and food production, according to a new report.
Tagged under: Agriculture | Ice Melting | Tipping Points | Collapse
More than 70% of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research across 8 countries reveals | Headlines
2023-09-22 in devdiscourse.comTo conduct the Farmer Voice, life science company Bayer commissioned an agency to independently interview 800 farmers globally, representing farms large and small from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kenya, Ukraine, and the United States in equal numbers.Farmers expect the repercussions of climate change to continue.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Collapse | Agriculture | India
Climate change having huge impact on farmers
2023-9-21 in Fruit NetMore than 70 per cent of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research from Farmer Voice survey reveals
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture
More cows kept in UK ‘megafarms’, animal welfare campaigners warn
2024-08-13 in BBCCampaigners warn more cows could be spending their entire productive lives indoors.
Tagged under: Agriculture | UK
Japan’s rice stocks drop to lowest level in decades amid tourist boom and poor crop yields
2024-07-31 in The GuardianJapan’s agriculture ministry blames shortage on tourists’ vast demand for rice and low crop yields last year
Tagged under: Japan | Food Production and Consumption | Farming | Agriculture
‘It’s really scary’: How rat poisons are wreaking havoc on raptors and other wildlife
2024-07-25 (or before) in Science | AAASSupertoxic rodenticides can accumulate in birds, mammals, and insects, even killing some. Scientists want to understand the damage—and limit it
Tagged under: Insects | Birds | Agriculture | Pollution
Forever Pesticides: A Growing Source of PFAS Contamination in the Environment | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 132, No. 7
2024-07-24 (or before) in ehp.niehs.nih.govBackground: Environmental contamination by fluorinated chemicals, in particular chemicals from the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) class, has raised concerns around the globe because of documented adverse impacts on human health, wildlife, and ecosystem quality. Recent studies have indicated that pesticide products may contain a variety of chemicals that meet the PFAS definition, including the active pesticide ingredients themselves. Given that pesticides are some of the most widely distributed pollutants across the world, the legacy impacts of PFAS addition into pesticide products could be widespread and have wide-ra...
Tagged under: Wildlife | Water Resources | Health | Plastic | Food Production and Consumption | PFAS aka Forever Chemicals | Agriculture | Risks | Pesticides
Vegetable shortages are increasingly likely, warns canned food CEO
2024-07-14 (or before) by in Brussels TimesSo far, the spinach harvest has been poor, while the yield of rhubarb and kale has also been disappointing.
Tagged under: Famine and Food Insecurity | Farming | Agriculture
Biden-Harris administration announces proposed rule to protect indoor, outdoor workers from extreme heat | Occupational Safety and Health Administration
2024-07-03 (or before) in osha.govTagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture | US Politics | USA | Extreme Heat
Sicilian producers in ‘race against time’ as drought continues
2024-6-21 in Fruit NetSituation is extreme for region's fruit and vegetable producers, with around half the island said to be at serious risk of desertification
Tagged under: Collapse | Drought | Agriculture | Italy
Farmer confidence at an all-time low, NFU data reveals
2024-5-5 in thegrocer.co.ukThe Farmer Confidence Survey showed short and mid-term confidence is at its lowest since records began in 2010
Tagged under: UK | Collapse | Agriculture
Large areas face challenging start to the season
2024-04-22 (or before) in joint-research-centre.ec.europa.euAccording to the March edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin crop monitoring in Europe, winter crop areas in several parts of Europe have been negatively impacted by unfavourable weather conditions since the start of the season. In the north, the most severely affected fields are expected to be resown wi
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Europe | Agriculture
Defra announces cap on SFI actions to maintain food production - Farmers Weekly
2024-03-25 in Farmers WeeklyDefra has responded to industry concerns about food security by announcing a cap on the amount of some environmental incentives farmers in England can
Tagged under: Agriculture
B.C. winemakers rethinking industry after climate catastrophes | CBC News
2024-03-14 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterRecord-breaking heat, destructive cold snaps and wildfires have almost completely wiped out this year's crop of B.C. wines. Now, vineyards are figuring out how to rebuild from the ground up.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Extreme Weather | Agriculture | Canada
UK can sustain itself if it converted all animal farmland to forest, Harvard research shows
2024-03-13 (or before) in The Vegan SocietyResearchers found the UK can convert animal farmland to forest and still grow enough protein as well as help combat climate change.
Tagged under: Net Zero | Food Production and Consumption | Agriculture | Rewilding | Trees
Potentials and perspectives of food self-sufficiency in urban areas—a case study from Leipzig | Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems | Cambridge Core
2024-03-13 (or before) in Cambridge University Press & AssessmentPotentials and perspectives of food self-sufficiency in urban areas—a case study from Leipzig - Volume 37 Issue 3
Tagged under: Climate Change Adaption | Germany | Agriculture | Food Production and Consumption
B.C. fruit farms prepared for devastating crop yields this summer
2024-03-12 by in Canada's National ObserverOne of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before any peaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees.
Tagged under: Collapse | Agriculture | Canada | Trees
Further wet weather raises fears of harvest catastrophe - Farmers Weekly
2024-03-12 in Farmers WeeklyFurther heavy rainfall over the last fortnight is increasing farmers’ concerns of an impending harvest catastrophe. Following relentless rain since
Tagged under: Food Production and Consumption | Collapse | UK | Agriculture
‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers
2024-03-12 in The GuardianStruggling to compete with large-scale landowners, smallholder farmers move ever deeper into Brazil’s disappearing forest
Tagged under: Agriculture | Amazon Rainforest | Trees
Food Supplies Threatened in Southern Africa After Driest February on Record - Bloomberg
2024-03-08 in BloombergZambia has declared protracted dry spell a national disaster as price of staple food surges.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Drought | Agriculture | Zimbabwe | Africa | Economics
Warning as major supermarkets could see empty shelves of staple vegetable this summer - Mirror Online
2024-03-08 by in The MirrorTagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture | UK
Somerset Levels farming may become 'unsustainable' due to floods
2024-03-08 in The BBCAlan Franks' family has been in dairy farming since the 1950s but he now fears for his business.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | UK | Agriculture | Flooding | Cattle and Dairy Farming
America's Farmers Embrace Solar Panels to Protect Against Volatile Crop Prices - Bloomberg
2024-03-07 in BloombergUS farmers are turning to solar power as a buffer against volatile crop prices, and Biden's clean-energy tax incentives are set to boost the trend.
Tagged under: Solar Energy | USA | Agriculture | Washington State
Climate change is warping the seasons
2024-03-06 by in The ConversationA new series will investigate what’s happening to nature’s calendar.
Tagged under: Insects | Wildlife | Agriculture | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts
Just 131 shoots & game farms rear and release 6.2million pheasants
2024-03-05 in whoownsengland.orgImage: a pheasant rearing farm in Buckinghamshire. This post is by Guy Shrubsole; big thanks to Lewis Winks for GIS mapping skills. New official data that I've obtained via a Freedom of Information request shows that just 131 shoots and game farms are responsible for rearing and releasing a staggering 6.2 million pheasants in England.…
Tagged under: UK | Birds | Agriculture
On‐site floral resources and surrounding landscape characteristics impact pollinator biodiversity at solar parks
2024-03-04 (or before) in British Ecological Society JournalsAbstract There is increasing land use change for solar parks and growing recognition that they could be used to support insect pollinators. However, understanding of pollinator response to solar pa...
Tagged under: Agriculture | Insects | Solar Energy
Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-03-04 (or before) in PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceTerrestrial enhanced weathering (EW) of silicate rocks, such as crushed basalt, on farmlands is a promising scalable atmospheric carbon dioxide rem...
Tagged under: USA | Agriculture | Carbon Capture and Storage
Colorado ranchers sentenced after tampering with rain gauges to increase crop subsidies - CBS Colorado
2024-03-02 in CBS NewsTwo southeastern Colorado ranch owners were recently sentenced to pay $6.6 million to resolve federal charges that they damaged or altered rain gauges in an effort to get paid for worsening drought conditions.
Tagged under: Agriculture | Colorado State | Drought
British farmers say 'shocking' levels of floods are pushing them to the brink | ITV News
2024-03-01 in ITVHeavy periods of rain this autumn and winter have decimated farms around the UK, with some saying their land has been constantly submerged since October. | ITV National News
Tagged under: Food Production and Consumption | UK | Flooding | Agriculture
Tipping Points Report shows humanity on ‘disastrous trajectory’ - The Engineer
2023-12-06 by The Engineer in The EngineerHumanity is on the verge of triggering at least five major tipping points which could see the collapse of ice sheets, ecosystems and food production, according to a new report.
Tagged under: Agriculture | Ice Melting | Tipping Points | Collapse
Americans love avocados. It’s killing Mexico’s forests
2023-11-28 in The Seattle TimesIn western Mexico, forests are being razed at a breakneck pace to feed the U.S. appetite for avocados. It's environmentally devastating and most likely illegal.
Tagged under: Trees | Agriculture | Mexico
Inhibitive Effects of Recent Exceeding Air Temperature Optima of Vegetation Productivity and Increasing Water Limitation on Photosynthesis Reversed Global Greening
2023-10-10 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences JournalGlobal terrestrial vegetation dynamics have been rapidly altered by climate change. A widespread vegetation greenness over a large part of the planet from the 1980s to early this century has been reported, whereas weakening of CO2 fertilization effects and increasing climate extremes and the adverse impact of increasing rate of warming and severity of drought on vegetation growth were also reported.
Tagged under: CO2 | Agriculture | Drought
More than 70% of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research across 8 countries reveals | Headlines
2023-09-22 in devdiscourse.comTo conduct the Farmer Voice, life science company Bayer commissioned an agency to independently interview 800 farmers globally, representing farms large and small from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Kenya, Ukraine, and the United States in equal numbers.Farmers expect the repercussions of climate change to continue.
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Collapse | Agriculture | India
Climate change having huge impact on farmers
2023-9-21 in Fruit NetMore than 70 per cent of farmers have already seen large impacts of climate change on their farm, new global research from Farmer Voice survey reveals
Tagged under: Farming | Climate Change | Climate Change Impacts | Agriculture
Beyond fed up: six hard trends that lead to food system breakdown
2023-03-01 by in Insight, the University of Cumbria's institutional repositoryThis paper is a preprint of a chapter in the forthcoming book Breaking Together (Bendell, 2023). It analyses six hard trends that are already happening, and lead to food system breakdown. First, the biophysical limits of food production are being reached. Second, current food production systems are actively destroying the very resource base upon which they rely. Third, the majority of food production and all its storage and distribution is critically dependent upon fossil fuels, not only making the food supply vulnerable to price and supply instability, but also presenting an impossible choice between food security and reducing ...
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Food Production and Consumption | Agriculture | Collapse
How livestock grazing is preventing the return of rainforests to the UK and Ireland
2023-02-13 in The WeekMost of the UK and Ireland’s grass-fed cows and sheep are on land that might otherwise be temperate rainforest
Tagged under: Rewilding | UK | Rainforests | Agriculture
Populations of UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted since 1970
2019-10-03 by Damian Carrington in The GuardianQuarter of mammals and nearly half of birds assessed are at risk of extinction, says State of Nature report
Tagged under: Oceans | Farming | Agriculture | Extinction | Biodiversity Loss | Wildlife | Birds
From Top Gear to the top field: how Jeremy Clarkson became an eco-friendly farmer
2019-05-27 in The GuardianThe former Top Gear presenter has cultivated his petrolhead image for years, but a recent interview lifts the lid on his Earth-loving side
Tagged under: Farming | Agriculture | Conservation | UK
Butterfly numbers fall by 84% in Netherlands over 130 years – study
2019-04-01 by Patrick Barkham in The GuardianEuropean insect populations shrink as farming leaves ‘hardly any room for nature’
Tagged under: Farming | Agriculture | Biodiversity Loss | Insect Populations | Butterflies and Moths | Wildlife | Insects
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