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Keyword - agriculture

- International seed aid "in need of rethink" - Premium content
  
  Experts claim that mass handouts of seeds are not helping poor farmers.
  
  14 May 2008
- Raking through sludge exposes a stink - Premium content
  
  Environmental Protection Agency scientists accused of fabricating data about health effects of fertilizer.
  
  14 May 2008
- In brief: Farm bill reduces support for corn ethanol - Premium content
  
  14 May 2008
- IN BRIEF: Patent on Mexican yellow beans is reversed - Premium content
  
  7 May 2008
- Costa Rican biotech centre in peril - Premium content
  
  Government inactivity puts EU funds in jeopardy.
  
  16 April 2008
- Water: More crop per drop - Premium content
  
  Farmers' yields in the developing world are often limited by unreliable rains. Improving their harvests will require plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to pull together #20; but can these experts work out their differences? Emma Marris reports.
  
  19 March 2008
- Enough water to go around? - Premium content
  
  Nature checks out the state of usable water on our planet.
  
  19 March 2008
- Gates foundation gives cash for agriculture in Africa - Premium content
  
  30 January 2008
- Gates funds agricultural development - Premium content
  
  Hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent to revitalize African soils.
  
  25 January 2008
- SPECIAL REPORT: Showdown for Europe
  
  The European Union is set to make a landmark decision on genetically modified crops, as Alison Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier report.
  
  12 December 2007