Allocation of RM559.85 million for Sabah’s food security TUARAN: The Sabah State Government has allocated a total of RM559.85 million to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Industry (MAFFI) this year to increase food security and the Self-Sufficiency Rate (SSR) of food crops in the state. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor said the allocation reflected the state government’s commitment to ensuring that food security remains strong, given that the issue is now a major agenda at the global and national levels. “The agriculture, fisheries and food industry sectors continue to be the heart of Sabah’s socio-economic development,” he said when speaking at the MAFFI Kitchen Garden […]

Allocation of RM559.85 million for Sabah’s food security #FoodSecurity #SabahAgriculture #SustainableFarming #FoodCrops #AgricultureIndustry

Canadian research. Canadian scientists. #CFIA #Canada #Canadian #FoodCrops #Research #Science

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice.

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review

#BookReview📖 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#BookSky💙📚 #books #SeedBank #FoodCrops #botany #scientists #Russia #Leningrad grrlscientist.medium.com/the-forbidde...

In this short video five farmers talk about how they shifted from tobacco to the cultivation of #foodcrops. They describe, which support has been helpful to them, how they handle the farming and sale of the food crops and what are the advantages of their new crops.
#FoodNotTobacco #WFD2025

Birds And Bats Provide Natural Pest Control To Vineyards

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#birds🦉 #bats🦇 #FoodCrops #NaturalPestControl #Farming🚜 #Ecology #environment medium.com/grrlscientis...

🌱 The James Hutton Institute is proud to join the €4.9M EU-funded #CROPSAFE project.

Led by the @ua.es, the project aims to develop sustainable, bio-based pest control solutions for key #FoodCrops, supporting the EU’s Green Deal.

More: ow.ly/1ys850WAyHg

Bret Adee, one of the largest US beekeepers, has 55,000 hives used to pollinate crops. As monoculture farming spreads, bees have to be moved across the country, especially for almonds, blueberries and cherries. He lost 75% of his bees over the past year. Photograph: K Brinson/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US #honeybees

#USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #Food #Health #Nature #Agriculture #FoodCrops #Climate #Environment #Mites #BeeVirus #Amitraz #Pesticides #HabitatLoss #ClimateChange #USDA #Cdnpoli

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

250 million honeybees escaped when a truck was overturned just south of the Canada-US border near Lynden. (Whatcom County Gov, @Whatcomctygov via X)

250M #honeybees escape after truck overturns south of Aldergrove in #Washington state

#USA 🇺🇸 #Bees #Beehives #AnimalWelfare #TruckSafety #USpoli #Pesticides #Food #FoodCrops #FoodSystems

vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/05/30/b...

The UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day.

More images of blooms, blossoms and the odd bee at
rodraglin.smugmug.com

#bees #pollinators #foodsecurity #sustainabledevelopment #foodcrops #agriculture #biodiversity

A small garden plot planted with garlic starts.

A garden bed planted with cauliflower seedlings.

A newly planted bare root everbearing raspberry cane named Fall Gold.

A newly planted bare root raspberry cane named Amity.

Today's plantings. 🌱🧄
#gardensky #gardening #homesteading #survival #foodcrops #selfsufficiency #raspberries #garlic #cauliflower

Unfortunately politics is how groups pf people negotiate how to live together. But how can you negotiate without coffee?
#ClimateChange #Sustainability #FoodCrops

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised
In oceans & on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature #climatecrisis #foodcrops #extinctions #nzpol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why The U.S. Isn’t Growing Enough Food has far more implications than just not producing enough food, the reasons for it, and the subsequent impacts of the feedback effects are complex. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcQ... #FoodCrops #CommodityCrops #CaliforniaSmallFarms #CaliforniaIndustrialFarms