The world's leading agriculture organization sounds an urgent alarm as temperatures climb and water use is expected to rise.
Eric Toensmeier's new book explores carbon sequestration through carbon farming as a way to cool a warming planet. Read more on award-winning Civil Eats!
Are rooftop greenhouses the next big thing in local produce?
It's not just better crops that will feed the world—it's better microbes.
Paul Dobbins’ farm needs no pesticides, fertilizer, land, or water — we just have to learn to love seaweed.
Growing food in cities offers a powerful way to reclaim communities and change the dynamics so that people of color have wealth and power.
The Rainforest Alliance works with farmers around the world to advance agricultural methods that boost the productivity of arable land, thereby reducing encroachment on standing forests, while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.
LGBTQ communities are left out of agricultural policy and programs in developing countries. A new call to action from researchers is seeking to change that.
Decades with a black thumb and no concept of container gardening. That was me. But then, as so often happens in life, things changed.
From big data to drone technology, VCs are investing in companies that will change the way we think about farming.
Organic farming creates more profit and yields healthier produce. It’s time it played the role it deserves in feeding a rapidly growing world population
The discovery of millennia-old seeds may lead to a better future for a vital world crop.
In the the top producing farmlands of the world, attention is turning to technology and education to bring agriculture into the Digital Age.
Monsanto, the world’s most vilified company—now a takeover target—has a plan to feed us all. Will it work?
Organic practices could counteract the world's yearly carbon dioxide output while producing the same amount of food as conventional farming, a new study suggests.
What the history of wheat tells us about what’s to come.
Technology is helping farmers develop new and efficient ways to produce food
Agribusiness is on the verge of dramatic change. But across the industry, many companies have barely scratched the surface in their efforts to boost yields, improve supply chain efficiencies or increase value-added activities.
Today, 1 in 9 people is undernourished. Population growth, limited land for agriculture and low yields are challenges to feeding our growing world. Syngenta ...