Is biodiverse agriculture an anachronism? Or is it a vital part of a food-secure future? Given the need to feed an estimated 2.4 billion more people by the year 2050, the drive toward large... Read more
Researchers at the UPM have developed a carbonaceous material from sewage sludge that when applied to soil can help to improve its quality. The material is called biochar and was prepared an... Read more
More frequent harvest could substantially boost global food production on existing agricultural lands Harvesting existing cropland more frequently could substantially increase global food pr... Read more
At 77, Jackson is a big man with big ideas. A few weeks ago at the annual Prairie Festival in Salina, Kan. — a celebration, essentially, of true sustainability — I sat down with Wes Jackson... Read more
Straw from agriculture could play an important role in the future energy mix for Germany. Up until now it has been underutilised as a biomass residue and waste material. These were the concl... Read more
In Tanzania more frequent droughts and changing rainfall patterns are forcing subsistence farmers to adapt Farmers need only survey their parched fields during the ever-intensifying dry seas... Read more
Rubber can be extracted from the juice of the dandelion. Yet the decisive breakthrough to industrial manufacturing is proving to be a tough step. Working jointly with industry and science, t... Read more
Working closely with farmers to use the right input, at the right time, at the right place, and in the right amount can improve crop yields. Raj Khosla, PhD, and other agronomists have demon... Read more
This is the first time scientists have assigned a monetary value to the pest-control benefits rainforest can provide to agriculture. Their study could provide the framework for pest manageme... Read more
A greater focus on the role of microbiology in agriculture combined with new technologies can help mitigate potential food shortages associated with world population increases according to a... Read more
A simple mixture of organic waste, such as chicken manure, and zeolite, a porous volcanic rock, has been developed into a powerful fertiliser which can also reclaim desert or contaminated la... Read more
Farming is one of the few human activities that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere and store it safely Farming is one of the few human activities that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere and stor... Read more
New University of Minnesota research shows reallocating croplands away from fuels and animal feed could boost food available for people by 70 percent without clearing more land. The world’s... Read more
By far, the largest demand for the world’s water comes from agriculture, as more than two-thirds of the water withdrawn from the earth’s rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for ir... Read more
After being drained by the millions of acres to make way for agriculture, wetlands are staging a small comeback these days on farms. Some farmers restore or construct wetlands alongside thei... Read more
