The global food system faces growing risks as modern farming practices undermine the resilience of the world's soils, according to new research. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

Rotating crops, using compost, adding cover crops and flower strips, and reducing tillage are practices that can make farms resilient to climate change and bring environmental benefits, but Cornell ...

Chloe MacLaren has received funding from the UK BBSRC project 'GLTEN-Africa' (BB/R020663/1). Agriculture involves a difficult balance between food production and environmental impact. For example, ...

Industrialized agriculture can be attributed to about 25-30% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year. As one of the largest sources of emissions, industrial agriculture is the focus of many ...

A globalized food system has its obvious benefits staring at us from the grocery store shelves: fresh red strawberries no matter the season and flash-frozen seafood available thousands of miles from ...

This article was written by Stacey Stearns, educational program administrator for UConn Extension, based in Storrs, Conn. Organic versus conventional agriculture. Industrial versus sustainable. GMO ...

Many communities in rural India experience water shortages, partially due to unsustainable agricultural practices. To reverse this trend while maintaining the same yield and productivity of ...

The global food system faces growing risks as modern farming practices undermine the resilience of the world's soils, according to new research. Soil resilience is the ability of soils to withstand, ...