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Laura O'Carroll's blog Bees fly near a thermosolar hive in Chrudim. REUTERS/David W Cerny   Why These Bumblebees are Wearing Itty-Bitty QR Codes Researchers superglued QR codes to the backs of bumblebees to look at how worker bees know to jump i ...


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Laura O'Carroll's blog Dear Reader: We are pleased to announce a new occasional blog series, Cultivating Tomorrow: Indian Agriculture Challenged, by Marshall M. Bouton, president emeritus of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The series will ...


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Laura O'Carroll's blog By Taylor Quinn, JUST Inc.   jan2018_-_just_liberia_-_2.jpg Photo credit: A. Valentino Thomas   My next-door neighbor Bendu makes two dollars a day selling at an open-air market in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. She’s a sing ...


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Marcus Glassman's blog A farmer harvests his wheat crop in a field in the Beheira governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany View this week's edition   of the  Global Food for Thought  news brief. If you would like to have ...


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Laura O'Carroll's blog angus_cattle_700_466.jpg REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne ‘Cow Fitbits’ and Artificial Intelligence are Coming to the Dairy Farm. But Some Farmers aren’t so Impressed. “The Intelligent Dairy Farmer’s Assistant,” called IDA, uses a ...



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Laura O'Carroll's blog   mh_cow-grazing_700x365.jpg   View this week's edition   of the  Global Food for Thought  news brief. If you would like to have the  Global Food for Thought  news brief delivered to your inbox, please  sign up here. ...


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Laura O'Carroll's blog A volunteer checks on plants inside a simulated space cabin in which he temporarily lives with others as a part of the scientistic Lunar Palace 365 Project, at Beihang University in Beijing, China. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj Chi ...


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Laura O'Carroll's blog mh_gfft-marigold-harvest-gumitir_700x365.jpg View this week's edition  of the  Global Food for Thought  news brief. If you would like to have the  Global Food for Thought  news brief delivered to your inbox, please  s ...