Most don't last long enough to provide habitat for many forest species

A growing world population means that more food is needed which in turn may require more land to grow food crops

New research maps energy, protein, fat, essential amino acids, and micronutrients across the global food system to assess whether enough reaches everyone's plate

Next step could be "nitrogen-fixing" plants that can do the same, reducing the need for fertilizer

CIRAD and its partners had to use cunning to establish the first sugarcane reference sequence

University of Cincinnati researchers found the soils in New Mexico could support agriculture, suggesting the people who lived there 1,000 years ago were self-sufficient

A newly developed fertilizer system will provide nutrition to engineered cotton crops worldwide

Farmers in China’s Loess Plateau have for decades used both plastic and straw as a soil cover, or mulch, between crops

Farmers are turning to new antibiotics, but it's widely acknowledged that it's only a matter of time before bacteria become resistant to any new chemical

Innovation establishes method to control invasive fly that deposits eggs in fruit crops, causing millions in damage