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
The world’s top 10 crops — barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat — supply a combined 83 percent of all calories produced on cropland. Yield... Read more
New University of Minnesota research shows current growth in global crop yields will be insufficient to feed the world in 2050 and identifies focus areas for closing the gap. Crop yields wor... Read more
“All of the results indicate that it may be expected to have wide applications for sustainable development of modern agriculture” The search for a sustainable slow-release fertilizer — a key... Read more
Just-released Nature paper shows more strategic use of nutrients and water on a global scale could boost production 45 to 70 percent for most crops Can we have enough to eat and a healthy en... Read more
The future of global agriculture Trying to tap into the best thinking about the future of global agriculture, as I have tried to do in my work as a reporter, can be an exercise in frustratio... Read more
To feed the world’s growing and more affluent population, global agriculture will have to double its food production by 2050 Five steps, reflected in the maps, could be taken to help f... Read more