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Hyperspectral imaging is a useful technique for analyzing the chemical composition of food and agricultural products. However, it is a costly and complicated procedure, which limits its practical application. A team
Andy Jarvis, Bruce Friedrich, Will Harris and Katie Cantrell are part of a group focused on food who are leading conversations at the Times’s Climate Forward Changemaker Lunch.
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Planting and maintaining a border of trees around agricultural fields will help a family of flies that, in turn, is important to crops, according to a recent University of Alberta study.
Bacterial communities in soil are as resilient to human urine as synthetic fertilizers — making recycling the bodily fluid as a fertilizer for agricultural crops a viable proposition.
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Agriculture fundamentally changed the way humans live — but at a cost, using up huge tracts of land and wreaking havoc on the environment, even as millions still go hungry. Entrepreneur
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