A wide survey of pesticide effects on soil biodiversity across 373 sites in Europe reveals that pesticide residues occur in 70% of sites and have major effects on soil biodiversity and functional...

Eine neue internationale Studie im Fachjournal Environmental Health zeigt: Eine langfristige Exposition gegenüber Glyphosat und glyphosathaltigen Herbiziden, selbst bei Dosierungen im Bereich der als ...

Meeting global protein demands amid climate change, land scarcity, and a projected population of nearly 10 billion by 2050 requires innovative, sustai…

This paper investigates the analogous land inequality and farm size-productivity relationships, focusing on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) rather than partial productivity measures. Usi...

Although scientists have been researching the impacts of organic agriculture on the environment and animal welfare for decades, the conclusions drawn by the scientific community remain controversial. ...

Habits are key determinants of consumer behavior across a range of domains, such as food consumption, brand selection, transportation choice, technology usage, and health-related behaviors. Habits ma...

Despite concerns about animal welfare, and health and environmental issues associated with eating meat, meat consumption has continued to increase worldwide, including in Australia. One exception to t...

Global pet ownership, especially of cats and dogs, is rising with income growth, and so too are the environmental impacts associated with their food. …

Since overconsumption of animal-sourced foods is directly linked to multiple environmental and health issues, a dietary shift is imperative. One appro…

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Regenerative agriculture has gained attention for its potential to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from crop production and improve farm profitability through practices like cover cropping an...

Maize is the staple cereal in Malawi, with a daily per capita consumption of 383 g (dry matter basis), primarily consumed in the form of nsima, a thick porridge. We combined a milling experiment with ...

Animal welfare programs alone are insufficient to ensure better welfare for farm animals. Effective farm management, driven by dairy farmers' intrinsic motivation, plays a pivotal role. This study ex...

Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes, the world's predominant land use, could involve sparing, or setting aside, agricultural land from production, implying biodiversity–food trade-of....

Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and the magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood. Wan et al. found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising food prices have become a defining feature of the global landscape. In high-income countries, rising food…

Warum ich mit einer solchen Überschrift und einem Foto zur Maul- und Klauenseuche (MKS) beginne? Weil es, neben den alltäglichen Vorteilen einer Europäischen Union, aufzeigt, warum die EU so wichti…

Our study investigates the impact of genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations on international agricultural trade, with a specific focus on GMO approvals. We analyse the effects of GMO regulat...

Clinical mastitis, a prevalent production disease in the dairy industry, causes significant pain and swelling in dairy cows' udders. While previous research highlights a symbiotic relationship between...

We analyze how a potential CO2eq-tax on the most emission-intensive agricultural goods in Germany affects CO2eq-emissions and the income distribution.…

The risk of national food supply disruptions is linked to both domestic production and food imports. But assessments of climate change risks for food systems typically focus on the impacts on domestic...

Using 21,561 individuals, the authors present a cross-sectional study of how gut microbiome signatures are associated with dietary intake patterns and with host health outcomes.

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In this study, we assess the effect of the European Union's novel food regulations on firms' incentives to invest in such products. We adopt a conceptual framework based on real option value theory, ....

Agrivoltaics (AV) are expanding worldwide, but knowledge about the perception and acceptance of this approach is far from complete. The aim of the present study was to investigate the visual perceptio...

This paper estimates the effect of short-term changes in real consumer food prices on short-term fluctuations in neonatal, infant, and child mortality rates using a panel dataset covering 59 low- and...

Beitrag von Sebastian Lakner & Pia Sommer Das Thema Moorvernässung taucht inzwischen regelmäßiger in der Debatte auf: Von einem vergleichsweise geringen Flächenanteil der trockengelegter Moorfl…

In smart farming, agricultural technology providers (ATPs) wield market power in both the upstream (data collection/aggregation) and downstream (crop production) markets. Using a two-stage Muth model...

Grasses, legumes and green plant wastes represent a ubiquitous feedstock for developing a bioeconomy in regions across Europe. These feedstocks are of…

Current agricultural systems in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe depend on large quantities of nutrients from imported feed and artificial fe…