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By Amy Quinton on August 7, 2018 in Food & Agriculture IN THE UNITED STATES, more than 90 million acres of corn are planted every year. Corn uses more land than any other crop. It also uses a lot of fertilizer.

Can We Grow One of the World's Largest...

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This story appears in the September 2017 issue ofNational Geographic magazine. In a potato field near the Netherlands' border with Belgium, Dutch farmer Jacob van den Borne is seated in the cabin of an immense harvester before an instrument panel worthy of the starship Enterprise.

This Tiny Country Feeds the World

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Five years ago, Sergio Gamberini, a professional scuba diver and amateur gardener from Liguria, a coastal region in north-west Italy, was hanging out with local farmers. "I started wondering if crops could grow in the ocean," he says. "I had this vision about a vegetable garden inside a transparent balloon filled with air."

Journey Into the World's First...

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When the Dutch stem-cell researcher Mark Post unveiled the first lab-grown burger in 2013-handmade fiber-by-fiber from cow cells in petri dishes-he announced that the single serving cost more than $300,000. But the research was promising enough that Post launched a startup called Mosa Meat to pursue making cultured meat at scale.

This lab-grown beef will be in...

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Coffee makes up nearly 10 percent of Costa Rica's total emissions By Sophie Hares SANTA MARIA DE DOTA, Costa Rica, May 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climbing the steep slope by his house, Fernando Solis Arguedas examined a leaf on one of his 50-year-old trees that produces arabica beans for the world's first officially certified carbon neutral coffee.

Costa Rica coffee farmers brew up a...

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Farming fish in the desert might sound counterintuitive but Algeria hopes to tap the huge aquifers beneath the Sahara to feed its growing population By Thin Lei Win TOUGGOURT, Algeria, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a corner of his sprawling farm, Milouda Mohammed proudly unveiled his latest venture - a pond full of catfish that could herald a new future for farmers like him on the Sahara desert.

From camels to catfish, Algeria boosts...

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