Plant scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in their search for solutions to global food production challenges, have doubled the... Read more
If you wanted to really mess with the world’s food production, a good place to start would be in Morocco. They don’t grow much here, but it is home to mines containing most of the world’s kn... Read more
An almost entirely accidental discovery by University of Guelph researchers could transform food and biofuel production and increase carbon capture on farmland. By tweaking a plant’s genetic... Read more
With the world’s population expected to hit 9.1 billion by 2050, coupled with the growing effects of climate change on our ability to grow crops, a company out of Barcelona has proposed a so... Read more
New data and assessments suggest that resilience of the planet is now at risk Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously... Read more
Report pinpoints key food systems ‘leverage points’ that hold the greatest the potential to boost global food security and protect the environment Feeding a growing human populat... Read more
An international team of scientists has developed crop models to better forecast food production to feed a growing population – projected to reach 9 billion by mid-century – in the fa... Read more
Two thirds of the crops humans use for food production and the majority of wild plant species depend on pollination by insects such as bees and hover-flies. This ecosystem service, however,... Read more