Factory farming is a common yet controversial practice that allows for the large-scale production of meat products. However, ...

Agriculture is driving rapid evolutionary change, not just on farms but also in wild species in surrounding landscapes, new research has found. New research in Science is showing how the rise of ...

Pollinators in the tropics are less likely to thrive in intensive croplands, finds a new study suggesting bees and butterflies are at risk of major losses. Pollinators in the tropics are less likely ...

At the Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (Pelum) food festival held in Kampala in October, one of the stalls had ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...

urban agriculture, and is attracting attention as it increases the sustainability of society and provides fresh agricultural products to urban areas, benefiting communities and cities. Masu. However, ...

Our food system is in big trouble. It’s in big trouble because the global agritech/agribusiness sector is poisoning it, us and the environment with its pesticides, herbicides, GMOs and various other ...

Agriculture’s massive footprint means high ROI for broader adoption of best practices: optimizing global yields of staple grains, fruits, and vegetables would allow the world to produce the same ...

New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, common waterhemp, into a problematic agricultural weed. An international team led by ...