This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower. The World Food ...

Plant scientists have been employing science to improve crops for centuries. David Harris from the University of London believes that gatherers began selectively breeding wheat at about 12,500 B.C.

(TNS) — Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack successfully moved legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives this week to help farmers access "cutting-edge" broadband technology. Loebsack, representing ...

Rapid population and economic growth are destroying biodiversity. A growing demand for agricultural products requires ever new cultivated areas. Even though technological advances are making ...

The Río San Juan Biosphere Reserve in Nicaragua encompasses some 1.8 million hectares, as well as smaller protected areas such as Indio Maíz Biological Reserve, Los Guatuzos Wildlife Refuge, the ...

The world may see California largely as home to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, but it’s agriculture technology where we can most clearly outshine our competitors. In a new study, “Nurturing California ...

Terragen Holdings Ltd (AU:TGH) has released an update. Terragen Holdings Limited, a leader in agricultural innovation, showcased its commitment to sustainable farming at their recent Annual General ...

CHANGSHA, China, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zoomlion"; 1157.HK) is spearheading all-out efforts to safeguard the summer harvest as China's ...

Whether to spend money on outer space exploration or to apply it to solve serious problems on Earth, like climate change and food shortages, is a contentious debate. But one argument in favor of space ...

Republican legislation that would create additional federal safeguards to protect U.S. agriculture land from Chinese buyers overcame its latest hurdle by a substantial margin, putting it on track for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For thousands of years, humans have altered — often negatively and inadvertently —microbial communities in a quest to improve agricultural crops. In recent years, knowledge ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Increases in agricultural productivity will come from new technologies, resource inputs, and economic incentives. Future technological ...