AgrotechA camera-based, AI-controlled farrowing pen from WEDA and VetVise won the Gold DLG Innovation Award and the Animal Welfare Award at EuroTier 2026 by adjusting heating and feeding from sow and piglet behaviour.
CropsRetailers told CropLife that phosphate applications may fall to about 60% of two years ago, and one warns the urea-to-corn ratio could hit 174 bushels a ton in 2027.
OpinionAGRA communications chief Aggie Konde argues that African institutions should be organised and judged by whether they jointly raise the returns of farming enterprises, not by roads built or budgets spent one by one.
FAO's State of the World's Forests 2026 calls forest and landscape restoration a cost-effective answer to hunger, climate and biodiversity loss, but says only 206.5 million hectares are under restoration today.
Opening FAO's Committee on Forestry in Rome, Director-General QU Dongyu called for forests to be written into food security and development policies and presented new evidence on forest foods and nutrition.
An FAO programme funded by the EU and Sweden gave Georgian hazelnut growers food-safety training and matching grants for dryers, cutting the aflatoxin losses that can force a whole harvest to be destroyed.
At the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, CGIAR and AGRA speakers argued that Africa's USD 75 billion food import bill and persistent undernourishment call for regional trade and food processing, not blanket self-sufficiency.
EnvironmentA year-long pilot at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm used 16 thermal cameras and AI to watch birds and bats around a turbine, logging 22 possible collisions, two of them confirmed.
Ram Kiran Dhulipala, who directs CGIAR's Digital Transformation Accelerator, writes after visiting ICRISAT and IRRI that the research centres already have plenty of digital tools and now need shared infrastructure and standards to connect them.
A USD 14.95 million centre funded by KOICA at the University of the Philippines Los Baños gives breeders genomics and bioinformatics tools to develop rice and other crops adapted to drought, flooding and disease.
EnvironmentThe International Transport Forum warns that record-low water on the Rhine, Danube, Loire and Po is crippling inland shipping, a route that carries grain and fertiliser and 92 percent of US farm exports by river.
HealthWith rabies still endemic in parts of South Africa and dogs behind most human infections, FOUR PAWS and veterinarians used World Rabies Day on 28 September to call for dog vaccination and warn of the risk to cattle.
EnvironmentA Nature Cities study led from Oxford finds coal supplied about 76 percent of India's electricity as demand quadrupled in 2000-2020, and estimated urban PM2.5 deaths rose from 0.67 million to 0.87 million.
