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Qatar 365

Qatar’s innovative farms: from vertical solutions to honey production

In partnership with Media City

Farming in a desert climate can be hugely challenging but Qatar has been aiming to revolutionise solutions to growing crops in its dry environment. Qatar 365 reports.

Climate

One-third of the world’s corn could be at risk from climate change

What will be missing from our supermarkets when the US Midwest is too hot for corn?

Culture Series

Meet the pig farmer putting animal welfare and sustainability first

Meet the Dutch pig farmer putting animal welfare and sustainability first

Ukraine

Russia offers to lift port blockade in exchange for sanctions relief

Ukraine's inability to export agricultural produce is contributing to the rising global food prices.

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Green News

Shocking rise in toxic pesticides on European fruit, says study

Is the fruit and veg you’re buying laced with cancer causing chemicals?

Green News

Genetically modified tomatoes contain more vitamin D, say scientists

Low vitamin D levels affect roughly 1 billion people. Could this be the solution?

Moldova

Moldovan winemakers look to EU after sales to Russia, Ukraine decline

Moldova is Europe's 11th largest wine-producing country, with 3.8% of its territory consisting of vineyards.

Europe News

Belgian farmers struggle as drought and rising costs hit

An unusually dry spring has meant crop yields are so far much lower this year.

Cyprus

Cyprus farmers spill milk in protest over halloumi cheese protection

Goat and sheep herders are angry the cheese's protected status isn't being implemented fast enough.

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Extinction Rebellion activists target Monsanto offices in Buenos Aires

Extinction Rebellion activists protest in front of Monsanto's headquarters in Buenos Aires, against the use of agrochemicals in Argentina's crops.

Nature

The longest river in Italy is drying up: How will locals survive?

The mighty Po River nourishes a vast area of northern Italy, but climate change is causing a devastating drought.

Europe News

Brussels aims to circumvent Moscow's blockade of Ukrainian ports

It wants to help Kyiv export crucial goods like grain to help soften the blow to the global economy.

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Ready, Steady, Mow! British lawnmower racing season gets underway

The cream of the British lawnmower racing crop assembled in the Surrey village of Lingfield on Sunday for the start of a new season.

Ukraine

Ukrainian farmers export their harvest via Romania

Neighbouring countries are updating their port infrastructure to help with international exports, while Ukrainian farmers call the bomb squad to defuse undetonated explosives.

My Europe Series

How war is hitting Ukraine's farmers and menacing world food supplies

Nearly 25 million tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country.

Conscious Travel

Self-sufficient hideaways: From private islands to Italian farms

Would you go on a 'cultivacation'? Turns out it's the next big travel trend...

Culture Series

Natural born winemakers: Brothers transform their family vineyard

Wines made with 'minimal intervention' have taken the viticultural world by storm in recent years. Here's how it's done in Germany.

World

Angola sets its sights on the global coffee market

In partnership with Governo de Angola

Discover two Angolan companies reviving the country's coffee industry and making it their goal to restore the coffee sector back to its former glory days as one of the world's largest producers of the black gold.

Green News

Your pension is fuelling deforestation, a shocking new report reveals

The Make My Money Matter campaign has revealed that £2 (€2.40) in every £10 (€12.01) of an average British pension, is linked to the destruction of forest areas across the globe.

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"Candles" preserve Saint-Emilion vines as cold spell hits France

In the vineyards of Saint-Emilion, French winegrowers are lighting "candles", or using windmills and helicopters, in order to fight against the cold that hit many agricultural regions on Sunday night