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Multiple datasets combined to make first global cropland and field size maps

A global cropland percentage map and a global field size map have been created for the first time to guide scientists and policymakers interested in global agricultural modelling and assessment. Both maps are for the baseline year 2005 and combined multiple data sets from global, regional and national levels to achieve a high level of accuracy and 1 km2 resolution. As the global population ...

Oct. 22, 2015

By European Commission, Environment DG

Global network needed to monitor world`s agriculture

Writing in Nature, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, and 24 agricultural experts call for a global network to monitor the effects of agriculture on the environment. Evaluating the social, environmental and economic effects of different farming systems is a key step towards making agriculture sustainable and ensuring food security, say the authors. Current ...

Jul. 29, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Europe can improve decision making by better monitoring of agriculture

The greening and cross-compliance measures that have been introduced in Europe's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) pose challenges to policy evaluators. Policy makers lack good data to monitor if their measures are effective and efficient. In a large pilot a consortium of researchers with 1,100 farmers from nine European countries have showed that it is possible to collect indicators on ...

May 11, 2017

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

Methyl bromide monitor for agricultural fumigation approved by EPA

Effective June 25, 2008, the Department of Pesticide Regulation of the California EPA has added a real time remote sensor monitor for the detection of methyl bromide by PureAire Monitoring Systems, in addition to colorimetric detector tubes. The PureAire Air Check Advantage Continuous Methyl Bromide Monitor can now be used to monitor enclosed areas, including greenhouse soil fumigation and ...

Jun. 25, 2008

By PureAire Monitoring Systems, Inc

Netsat adds Bullhorn to satellite product line

The Bullhorn series offers GSM and global satellite communications to the oil and gas, water and wastewater, and agriculture industries for remote monitoring. The Bullhorn modems come in both 1 way and 2 way communications with a back office secure web portal or the BAT, Bullhorn Asset Tracker 24/7/365. Some of the benefits include; reads alarm codes, RPMs and runtimes via Modbus from Murphy or ...

Jun. 2, 2011

By NetSat Satellite Telecommunications

Feeding the growing world population

According to the estimates of the United Nations, in 2050 the world population will be over 10 billion. This will lead to approximately 50 percent increase in food need compared to 2013. In order to meet this demand, agricultural production needs to increase. Feeding the growing world population To feed the growing world population, it is necessary to increase the yield from the unit ...

Aug. 8, 2019

By AFS Agro Flow System GmbH

New Zealand considers bringing agriculture into emissions trading system

The phasing in of sectors, such as agriculture, into the Emissions Trading Scheme is a realistic and necessary way to minimise the disruption to the economy and give people and their business time to adjust, says Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton. Jim Anderton was responding to a call by the Sustainability Council that agriculture should enter the ETS immediately and pay full liabilities for ...

Apr. 30, 2008

By New Zealand Government

What is the difference between precision, digital and smart farming?

Modernization of agriculture and the use of digital technology have caused new concepts to emerge such as precision farming, digital farming, and smart farming. These terms, despite often used interchangeably, have a subtle difference in meaning. Precision farming or precision agriculture? The European Parliament’s report on Precision agriculture and the future of farming in Europe ...

Aug. 13, 2019

By AFS Agro Flow System GmbH

Ministers meet at FAO to discuss role of agricultural commodity markets

Governments ought to review the way international agricultural commodity markets are governed, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told ministers from around the world gathered for a meeting on the subject Monday. Commodity markets caught global attention due to volatile food prices in the past five years. While prices are currently declining, Graziano da Silva noted that ...

Oct. 6, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Advancing agricultural adaptation and mitigation

This policy brief, published by Science, examines how agricultural science can help improve policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Global food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food security. At the same time, agricultural ...

Jan. 24, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Ontario Releases Draft Pollinator Protection Health Action Plan

On January 22, 2016, Ontario released for consultation a draft Health Action Plan (Plan) to reduce losses of honeybees and other pollinators caused by several “stressors” stated in the Plan to include: (1) reduced habitat and poor nutrition; (2) diseases, pests, and genetics; (3) exposure to pesticides; and (4) extreme weather and climate change. This action plan is part of a broader ...

Jan. 29, 2016

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Airborne precision fertiliser application project promising

Providing liquid fertiliser tanks to the agricultural industry means that we like to keep our ear to the ground when it comes to technological and application developments and this week’s news is no exception. Massey University in New Zealand is conducting pioneering work which sees software and GPS technology send information from the ground to a hopper which opens automatically from the ...

Nov. 30, 2015

By ENDURAMAXX Storage Tanks

Food prices decline but remain high

Global food prices declined by 6 percent over the last quarter, but are still not far from their historical peaks, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Food Price Watch report. Wheat markets remain tight; and weather-related concerns in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation may further drive up wheat prices over the next few months. Domestic prices showed ...

Nov. 26, 2013

By The World Bank

At UN, global leaders commit to act on antimicrobial resistance

World leaders today signalled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi develop resistance against medicines that were previously able to cure them. For the first time, Heads of State committed to taking a broad, coordinated approach to ...

Sep. 21, 2016

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

`Good progress made at FAO` says new DFID report

FAO has made good progress in the last two years but much remains to be done, according to a new report published by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID). The DFID's MAR Update report on FAO comes just over two years after DFID's Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) which rated FAO "poor value for money" for the British taxpayer. The report recognizes the complex ...

Jul. 22, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, and Over 70 Groups Advocate for Passage of bill that will reduce threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs

Senator Brian Kavanagh and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal joined NYPIRG, Consumer Reports, Center for Food Safety, and over 70 national and state environmental, health, and consumer organizations today to call on the State Legislature and the Governor to take action in the state budget against the immediate and growing threat to the public's health posed by antibiotic-resistant "superbugs." ...

Feb. 25, 2020

By Center for Food Safety (CFS)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Are Flying to the Farm

Aerial drones, a technology perhaps best known for helping hunt terrorists on the other side of the globe, may soon begin helping U.S. farmers monitor what's happening in their fields collecting agriculture data. In Georgia, a group of state and federal officials - along with members of industry and academia - has been working since 2009 to develop a drone that can save a farmer's time and ...

Jun. 12, 2014

By Associated Press

UF/IFAS-created strawberry monitoring system set to expand

A strawberry monitoring web system that will soon expand to South Carolina is one of many reasons a University of Florida faculty member has won the Lee M. Hutchins Award from the American Phytopathological Society (APS). The Hutchins award goes to the author or authors of significant published research on basic or applied aspects of diseases of perennial fruit plants, according to the ...

Oct. 8, 2014

By University of Florida Powell Center for Construction & Environment

Saudi Arabia captured by Dacom irrigation management system

In Saudi Arabia drastic measures are needed to reduce the water usage by the agricultural sector. The Ministry of Agriculture has set itself the task to decrease the water consumption from 17 to 5 billion mᶟ. Since 2010, the Ministry of Agriculture has dedicated Dacom to a project to monitor the soil moisture at various arable farmers throughout Saudi Arabia. To this, Dacom advices both the ...

Aug. 22, 2014

By Dacom

Dutch university uses PlantCare technology

Dutch university Wageningen UR uses PlantCare equipment for soil moisture research in their greenhouse horticulture facilities in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands. 6 PlantCare wireless sensors, for recording soil moisture and soil temperature, and a PlantControl CX wireless data logger with modem, for sending the data to an email address, are being used. PlantCare’s worldwide patented sensor ...

Jan. 29, 2014

By Eijkelkamp Soil & Water

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