agriculture

As Nigeria gets slammed with another gavel of shame – this time called the Misery Index – we suddenly realize ...

Though it may seem otherwise, the term 'irrefutable' is not at all flattering ...

Farmers are increasingly frustrated and dispirited by the demands and unrealistic expectations of food advocacy groups and activists such as ...

For several years it has been broadly acknowledged that agriculture in Europe was first established in the Anatolian peninsula in modern day ...

Food manufacturers will soon have to comply with "truth in labeling" legislation that aims to protect Arkansas' meat and rice ...

[T]he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed mandatory premarket new animal drug regulatory evaluation for all food animals ...

For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept ...

Amid the various critiques of the proposed Green New Deal, few capture the alarmism of the American right quite like ...

Farm groups and food companies are pleased with a new United States labeling law governing genetically modified organisms, but non-GMO ...

The Dirt: We need protein as part of a healthy diet— and many of us turn to meat as a ...

[The first week of March] the United States published our objectives for a future trade deal with the UK. We are ...

In the four and a half years I’ve been blogging and doing social media as a career, I have banned ...

A researcher in Edinburgh is leading efforts to develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa. Prof Appolinaire Djikeng ...

Currently proposed types of lab-grown meat cannot provide a cure-all for the detrimental climate impacts of meat production without a ...

Crops and foods today are not what they used to look like. Farmers and plant breeders have been modifying plant ...

Global agriculture is increasingly dominated by just a handful of crops with limited genetic richness, says a group of researchers ...

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has put regulating the power of large firms at the center of her campaign. She often ...

Recent headlines about the coming collapse of the insect world are another case of extrapolation from inadequate data ...

A new piece of research, carried out by Francisco Sánchez-Bayo and Kris Wyckhuys, reviewed 73 historical reports of insect declines from ...

The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems,” according to the ...

The multi-billion-dollar organic industry is thriving in large part because of dishonesty ...

Animal gene editing could revolutionize food production. But FDA regulation stands in the way ...

Both plant and animal breeders need access to gene editing tools to introduce sustainability traits ...

Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up ...

Building on landmark events from the past year, Nigeria’s biotechnology sector is expecting significant progress on two key food and ...

The claim that meat production generates more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector is demonstrably false, says Frank Mitloehner ...

I have complained often about the lack of horizontal polling for public acceptance of genetically modified food – where the ...