Agriculture

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CES 2019: AI-powered combine harvesters and cat treadmills amongst gadgets on show

Human poo converted into reusable fuel and fertiliser in new study

Plant hormone may be the key to farming in space

Solar and wind farms could increase vegetation and rain in the Sahara

Crop failures expected to soar as global warming leads to rising insect populations

Japanese farmers plugging labour gap with drones

First lab-grown meat could hit stores in 2021

Climate change could drive up price of healthy food, study finds

Genetically modified pigs could cut carbon footprint of pork, study suggests

‘Minimalistic’ robotic arm could be ideal for apple picking and space missions

View from India: Good irrigation creates employment

‘Super Monster Wolf’ unleashed to scare pests away from Japanese farms

Review

Review: Somewhere in Between at the Wellcome Collection, London

Agricultural robots developed to replace lost Brexit workers

Beef lobby group demands formal definition of ‘meat’ to counteract lab-grown rival foods

Gene-edited crops could overcome lower yields caused by climate change

Tobacco farms transformed into solar farms could benefit all, study suggests

China will try to clean up millions of acres of polluted farmland by 2020

Robots set to replace humans on ‘cucumber flyers’ on German farms

Skills shortage ‘holding back IoT adoption in agriculture’

Comment

View from India: Tomorrow beckons as India goes digital

British engineer's hydroponic food system for disaster areas wins UN backing

‘Fake poo’ developed to stress-test sanitation systems

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