Human health in the modern world is a conundrum. On the surface, we should be healthier than ever. We have more access to food and clean water than at any time in history. Doctors are more capable ...

Humans have physically reconfigured half of the world’s land to grow just eight staple crops: maize (corn), soy, wheat, rice, cassava, sorghum, sweet potato and potato. They account for the vast ...

Amuni (W/R), Dec. 08, GNA – Mrs Joana Gyan Cudjoe, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wassa Amenfi Central, has urged farmers to embrace modern agricultural skills to improve productivity and ...

Kericho County, Kenya – A typical Saturday morning starts before sunrise for Chepkorir Rotich, a farmer in Kiboito village in western Kenya’s Kericho County. By then, Rotich has already milked her ...

AMES, Iowa — Public interest in the environment is increasing and the news is full of stories about food safety. Those developments have led many to push for a return to small organic farms. Such ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...

Attendees walk between workshops at the Draft Animal Power Network's 2024 field days event. Credit: Carole Wiley for DAPNet Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for essential news each ...

A small notebook now sits alongside Mario Ebaya Encinas’ farming tools. Its pages are filled with handwritten notes on organic fertilizer application and modern farming techniques, carefully recorded ...

First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, has officially flagged off the 2026 farming season in Niger State, calling for a decisive shift from subsistence farming to modern, commercially driven ...