By turning instinct and experience into actionable intelligence, precision agriculture empowers farmers to make confident, ...

Agriculture is driving rapid evolutionary change, not just on farms but also in wild species in surrounding landscapes, new research has found. New research in Science is showing how the rise of ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts. Understanding the forces that initially drove the emergence of states across the world ...

Agriculture’s massive footprint means high ROI for broader adoption of best practices: optimizing global yields of staple grains, fruits, and vegetables would allow the world to produce the same ...

A comprehensive systems analysis reveals that Pakistan's agricultural sector is on an unsustainable trajectory. Current input ...

According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...

Soil nitrogen mineralization (N min) is a key process that converts organic N into mineral N that controls soil N availability to plants. However, regional assessments of soil N min in cropland and ...

Our food system is in big trouble. It’s in big trouble because the global agritech/agribusiness sector is poisoning it, us and the environment with its pesticides, herbicides, GMOs and various other ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.10 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.10 Copy URL Fertilizer-intensive agriculture has been integral to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 15, 2019) An article in the journal Plos One, “An assessment of acute insecticide toxicity loading (AITL) of chemical pesticides used on agricultural land in the United ...

Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, not just emissions of greenhouse gases, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study reveals how ...

New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, common waterhemp, into a problematic agricultural weed. An international team led by ...