VOA Special English Agriculture Report

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1.          New Findings About Loss of Bees

2.          Water Problems in a World of Insecurity

3.          For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It

4.          Making Power From Coconut Shells, Mango Pits

5.          The Appeal of Urban Farming

6.          Friends With Benefits, in the Plant World

7.          Putting Agriculture at the Center of Climate Talks

8.          Will Cost of Cocoa Raise the Price of Valentine’s Day?

9.          Really, It’s OK to Pinch Mums

10.      Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics

11.      Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide

12.      Steps Toward Drought-Resistant Crops, ‘Designer’ Rice

13.      Big Investors, Small Farmers in Africa: a Fair Deal?

14.      In the Garden: Growing Your Own Lettuce

15.      High Food Prices, Revolutions, and the Future

16.      Two of Santa’s Reindeer Flee in Texas (Really)

17.      ‘Property Ladder’ Helps Poor Gain Land Rights

18.      Prawns and Tobacco Find a Home Together

19.      UN Says Food Production Must Rise; How ‘Fertilizer Trees’ Could Help

20.      At Thanksgiving, the Makings of a National Feast

21.      Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms

22.      Seeking a Better Way for African Farmers to Fight a Fever

23.      In the Garden: Growing Beets

24.      Refugees Bring Flavor of Home to Community Farms

25.      Poor Suffer as Food Prices Likely to Stay High

26.      US, EU to Increase Fight Against Illegal Fishing

27.      Issues Slow Recovery of Kenya’s Cotton Industry

28.      Experts Defend Way of Life for Herders in East Africa

29.      Grow It Yourself: Turning Bulbs Into Beautiful Blooms

30.      Getting to the Root of How to Water Trees

31.      Experts Link East Africa Drought to La Niña in the Pacific

32.      African Film Shows Tensions Between Banana Growers, Villagers

33.      Hot in the Garden: Too Much Sun Can Be Bad for Vegetables

34.      Gardening: Vegetables Made in the Shade

35.      Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control

36.      Inventor of Weed Eater Started a Revolution

37.      Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops

38.      Putting Worms to Work to Help Your Garden

39.      Grow It Yourself: Onions Are Nothing to Cry About

40.      Groups Press for US Ban on Antibiotics in Healthy Animals

41.      Teaching Rural Farmers With Cell Phone Videos

42.      Trying to Improve Food Safety With a Camera

43.      In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses

44.      An American Cowboy Aims to Help Russia’s Beef Herd

45.      Study Links Climate Change to Changes in Crop Yields

46.      In Africa, the Greening of the Sahel

47.      Much of Africa Not Investing Enough in Agricultural Research

48.      Growing Chili Peppers: A Heated Subject

49.      Beauties in the Garden: Growing Ornamental Trees and Bushes

50.      Grow It Yourself: Turning Bulbs Into Beautiful Blooms

51.      Next Step After Carbon: Knowing Your Nitrogen Footprint

52.      For Japan Farmers, Radiation Fears Mean Economic Pain

53.      Getting to the Bottom of a Fish Die-Off in Southern California

54.      How Women Farmers Could Feed More in Developing World

55.      Food Makers See Crunch Time Against New Maize for Fuel

56.      Long History, Unclear Future for ‘Golden Rice’

57.      ‘Green Super Rice’ About Two Years Away for Asia, Africa

58.      Fish Farms May Soon Supply More Than Half the World’s Catch

59.      US Lets Farmers Plant Biotech Sugar Beets, With Conditions

60.      Bags Help Farmers Protect Harvests From Air and Insects

61.      Looking to Africa for Ideas About How to Fight Hunger

62.      World Food Prices Expected to Stay High or Keep Rising

63.      New Law in US Aims to Increase Food Safety

64.      An ‘Image Problem’ for a Food That Could Save African Lives

65.      Archi’s Acres Guides Returning Veterans Toward Business Success

66.      The Evergreen Industry in Christmas Plants

67.      Activists Say Fishing Limit Not Enough to Save Bluefin Tuna

68.      US Farm Exports May Set Record in 201

69.      Scientists Recycle Oyster Shells to Aid Chesapeake Bay

70.      Traditional Thanksgiving Meal, With Modern Shortcuts

71.      An African Grain Joins the Gluten-Free Market for People With Celiac

72.      Integrated Pest Management Can Increase Crop Production

73.      Fight to End Rinderpest Is Declared a Success

74.      New Attention Given to Child Cocoa Workers in Ivory Coast and Ghana

75.      Unwrapping the Genetic Secrets of a Chocolate Bar

76.      In the Garden: Growing Your Own Lettuce

77.      US Considers First Genetically Modified Animal for Food

78.      Many Farmers and Gardeners Turn Away From Tilling

79.      World Leaders Urged to Meet Development Goals by 2015

80.      Pretty Flowers Lead Two Scientists to a Discovery

81.      Want Truly Homemade Sweaters? Try Raising Your Own Goats

82.      Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms

83.      Russian Housing Plan Threatens Seed Bank

84.      Phone Call About Fertilizer Could Be a Big Help to Philippine Rice Farmers

85.      Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control

86.      Slaughterhouses on Wheels Come to the Aid of Small Farms

87.      Got Baboons in Your Crops? Offer Them a Snake Sandwich

88.      Uncooperative Goat Becomes the Mother of an Invention

89.      Growing Trees in the Desert, With the Aid of a ‘Waterboxx’

90.      Farming in the City: Joys of Growing Food

91.      In the Garden: Getting the Most Out of Mums

92.      World Food Prize Honors Heads of Two Groups Based in US

93.      In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses

94.      Farmers in East Africa Struggle Against Cassava Disease

95.      A Chicken in Every Pot: Finding New Uses for Feathers

96.      A Cotton Plant Kills One Kind of Bug, but Is Blamed for Another

97.      Why Grafting Still Fits Nicely Into Agriculture

98.      In Kenya, Low-Cost Crop Insurance for Small Farmers

99.      Oil Spill Puts Fisheries, Birds at Risk Along US Gulf Coast

100.  Transgenic Crops Get Good Marks in General in US Study

101.  Study Warns of Dangers to World’s Mangrove Forests

102.  In Haiti, a Struggle to Get Crops in the Ground

103.  Deforestation Decreased Over the Past 10 Years

104.  Study Documents Effects of Market Policy Changes on Three West African Countries

105.  West Africans, Free Markets and the ‘08 Food Crisis

106.  Rise in Food Gardens in US Brings Crop of Questions for Experts

107.  Broccoli and Cauliflower Their Tops Make Good Eating

108.  Want to Grow a Root? Beets Are Hard to Beat

109.  Winter Gives a Hard Chop to Washington’s Cherry Trees

110.  Burros Can Do More Than Work Just as Pack Animals

111.  Some Crops Can Help Farmers Prepare for Disasters

112.  Mapping the Way to a Better Soybean

113.  New Understanding of How Plants Use Water

114.  Giving Grasslands a Rest

115.  Keeping Plants and Trees Warm When Temperatures Drop

116.  New Alliance to Study Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture

117.  Circular Thinking: Round Barns on US Farms

118.  How a Hoop House Can Extend the Growing Season

119.  Officials in US Look for Fixes to Carp Problems

120.  An International Treaty Targets Fishing Abuses

121.  Making Better Concrete With Rice?

122.  Earl Cooley: Remembering an Early Smokejumper

123.  Two Efforts Seek to Increase Food Security in Africa

124.  Why Holding Fruit on Trees May Limit Next Year’s Crop

125.  Group Works to Expand Supply of Cattle Vaccine in Africa

126.  With Resistant Crops, Progress Can Raise New Problems

127.  Learning the Secrets of the Potato, and an Enemy

128.  Scientists Help Cut the Mystery Behind Pruning

129.  Do-It-Yourself: Pruning Plants (First of Two Parts)

130.  How to Strike Oil (From Seeds, That Is)

131.  Remembering Norman Borlaug

132.  New Findings About Disorder in Bees

133.  Poultry Farms With Unhappy Neighbors? Plant Some Trees

134.  Study Finds More Trees on Farms Than Was Thought

135.  Study Finds Some Ocean Fisheries Are Recovering

136.  Watching Out for ‘Wicked Plants’

137.  In Afghanistan, Preparing for a Threat to Wheat Plants

138.  Some Crops (Like Some People) Do Well as Companions

139.  Unbalanced Fertilizer Use, in an Uneven World

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