Almost any farmer in South Australia will tell you it has been a tough winter. The region has been subject to a "green drought", with historically low rainfall for the season causing little animal feed to grow. "It probably started last winter when it was an awfully wet winter … followed by poor spring and a long dry summer into …
Greece has lost 120,000 hectares of land to blazes this year – one of its worst annual tallies and fire season is not over yet. “I’ve nowhere to stay to help them, and I’ve no shelter for them.” The fires, thought to have been sparked by a lightning storm, had devastated 72,000 hecatres of Western Thrace and East Macedonia, Greece’s …
Farmers harvest rice in Rizhao, Shandong province. Back in 2021, the United Nations Food Systems Summit committed to accelerate and deepen the transformative power of food systems for achieving the SDGs. Once again, at the Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment concluded this week, the global community came together to speak about the urgency of transforming food systems globally, for …
Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten decided to scrap a measures that would ban farmers from adding extra proteins to animal feed, in an attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions, sources in The Hague told newspaper AD. The government is now looking for other ways to reduce nitrogen emissions, to create room for construction projects. This means that the government must now find …
