The Green Revolution solved the food shortage problem, but now, we humans need a new revolution to preserve and conserve ...

The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function; for example, not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. These are the conclusions of a ...

The world’s population continues to grow, while the amount of arable land and fresh water available to produce sufficient food for billions of people is beginning to top out. One solution is ...

Soil less tomato growing innovation. It leads to 30 pc more yield and there's no need to use pesticides. Tired of soil borne diseases that have been ruining their tomato yields, some farmers are ...

We have little chance of tackling climate change and reducing biodiversity loss without a redesign of the world’s largest industry: agriculture and food. With crops grown in farm fields, more ...

Across the world, fields and gardens are turning into lifeless crusts that repel water and resist roots. Yet the most effective way I see farmers bringing that “dead” ground back is not a new product ...

The government has yesterday (Wednesday 24 June) announced a new Farming Roadmap to outline its vision for the UK farming system up until 2050. It says that the "Farming Roadmap 2050: Growing ...

Midwest soil is eroding at an alarming rate according to new, first-of-its-kind research. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 ...

Rapid erosion due to human activity, such as grazing livestock and farming, has stripped the Alps of almost all the soil formed since the retreat of the glaciers. This soil developed over millennia as ...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, ...

We have little chance of tackling climate change and reducing biodiversity loss without a redesign of the world's largest industry: agriculture and food. In eastern Canada, cropping has intensified by ...