If the whole world ate like America, we wouldn’t have enough land in the world
We need to be more responsible -- starting from our plates.
Tag: agriculture
Study weighs environmental costs of producing animal proteins so you know what to buy
Now you know exactly what your purchases do.
Humanity has contended with rising seas before — and it didn’t go well for us
It's a bad day when the ocean moves into your living room.
Researchers create the ‘crop hotspot’ map of Mars so we know where to settle
All work and no food would make the colonists very sad. Also very, very dead.
Using rocks for farming could improve soil quality, reduce CO2 emissions
The practice could reduce the need for pesticides, improve soil quality, and absorb carbon dioxide.
Europe’s first farmers mingled with the locals, slowly mixing the communities together
Until now, we didn't know if the two greeted with a handshake or a bloodbath.
Reinventing rice: New saltwater rice developed in China could feed over 200 million people
It could make a big difference in many parts of the world.
Smartphone AI spots sick plants with remarkable accuracy
In a new advancement, scientists developed an algorithm that can identify sick plants based on sight alone.
Early farmers probably didn’t really know how to select crops — but they were very lucky
Domestication could've well happened on its own.
Barley’s full genome sequenced after decade-long research effort
A tiny plant with a lot of genes.
Farms could slash pesticide use without losing any yield or money, new study finds
More and more evidence is piling up against the use of pesticides.
UN scientists denounce ‘myth’ that we need pesticides to feed the world
Can we feed the world without pesticides?
Harvest in the US to suffer from climate change
As the newly elected president Trump starts his crusade of bashing environmentalism, a new study shows that climate change will ...
New robot picks peppers like a human
Robots are getting smarter and smarter.
Mixed legume and cereal crops don’t need fertilizer to yield a lot of food
Farm smart not hard.
Crop spray boosts wheat yield by 20% without the use of GMOs
The improvement is simply astonishing.
New farm in the middle of the desert will use only sunlight and seawater – no pesticides, fossil fuels, or even soil
The sun and the sea - that's all it needs.
Crops employ “austerity measures” to conserve water in drought conditions
By limiting the growth of their roots, grassy crops conserve soil water during drought.
Vegetables grown on Mars could be healthier than their Earth-grown counterparts
Food grown on Mars has been officially declared edible.
Our best bet at stopping food waste is to be more responsible, not more efficient
Humans are throwing away an insane quantity of food, both in the developed and in developing countries. While in the ...
How feeding pigs with leftovers can save the rainforest
In 2001 a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the United Kingdom was traced back to a farmer that illegally fed uncooked ...
Six initiatives for sustainable agriculture announced at COP21
Climate change and agriculture are so interrelated that you basically can't talk about addressing climate change without bringing agriculture into ...
Study finds most people would support a “meat tax”
Agriculture is a big driver of climate change, with the meat industry standing out among the rest as a source ...
Start-up develops new robot that identifies and removes weeds
Start-up company Deepfield Robotics has developed a field vehicle that can distinguish weeds from useful crops and eliminate them.
Orphan gene boosts the protein levels of crops
A recent study from Iowa State University shows how a gene, found in a single plant species so far, can ...
Agricultural behaviors recorded in bees for the first time
Cristiano Menezes of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation has discovered farming behaviors in bees, adding them to the list of ...
Florida quarantines farmlands to contain the Oriental Fruit Fly
Florida's farmlands are under attack by a highly destructive pest, the Oriental Fruit Fly, and authorities have quarantined some 85 ...
Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication: Leafcutter ants became farmers 50 million years before humans
Leafcutter ants in South America grow fungus as crops, this has been known for quite a while. But their crops ...
Ever-growing population and climate instability will lead to severe food shortages by 2050
The food industry has become much more efficient in the last few decades as a result of globalization, but also ...
And then I threw it on the ground: first signs of farming come from the middle east, some 23,000 years ago
Who, where and when "invented" farming? A new study pushes back the advent of farming by a couple of thousand ...
Humans bones became lighter and frailer once farming became widespread
Our bones are much lighter and weaker than those of our Paleolithic ancestors (11,000 to 33,000 years ago), but it's ...
The farmers of the future will be all robots
By 2050, world population is expected to rise to nine billion, but the amount of arable land meant to grow ...
Antarctic Ice Collapse Could Devastate Global Food Supply
We've already written about the damage done to the Antarctic ice sheet, and how sadly, its collapse seems irreversible. A ...
Manure was used by European farmers 8000 years ago
A new study has shown that European farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. The Oxford research ...
Cheese has a 7500 year history
Polish researchers have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated ...
Genetically engineered crops reach 11.5% of the total arable land
The first genetically engineered or biotech food products were released on the market for the first time in 1994. Consumers ...
