With a mobile data collection app and satellite data, scientists will be able to predict whether a certain region is vulnerable to food shortages and malnutrition. The method has now been te... Read more
Article in journal Science outlines threats to soil productivity A group of leading soil scientists, including the University of Delaware’s Donald L. Sparks, has summarized the precarious st... Read more
A collaborative research project between Australian and Chinese scientists has shown how soybean can be bred to better tolerate soil salinity. The researchers, at the University of Adelaide... Read more
The plastic-and-stainless-steel device, topped by a tiny solar panel, determines the amount of water to be delivered to the garden each day, using Mr. Aramburu’s Wi-Fi network to comm... Read more
Researchers at the UPM have developed a carbonaceous material from sewage sludge that when applied to soil can help to improve its quality. The material is called biochar and was prepared an... Read more
An increase in aridity due to global warming will disturb the balance of nutrients in the soil and reduce productivity of the world’s drylands, which support millions of people, a land... Read more
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Columbia University have developed a new soil testing kit designed to help farmers in third world countries. On-the-spot soil testing could have... Read more
They hope to mass produce the sensors for as little as $5 each Crop growers, wine grape and other fruit growers, food processors and even concrete makers all benefit from water sensors for a... Read more
McMaster University researchers are making major inroads in the battle against so-called superbugs and laying the groundwork for highly effective antibiotics of the future, a scientific jour... Read more
A simple mixture of organic waste, such as chicken manure, and zeolite, a porous volcanic rock, has been developed into a powerful fertiliser which can also reclaim desert or contaminated la... Read more
Farming is one of the few human activities that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere and store it safely Farming is one of the few human activities that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere and stor... Read more
By far, the largest demand for the world’s water comes from agriculture, as more than two-thirds of the water withdrawn from the earth’s rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for ir... Read more
Knowledge of soil properties such as organic carbon content, clay content and pH is vital for agriculture and climate change analysis in Africa. ISRIC has launched a new type of freely acces... Read more
We have a low-tech, safe, readily employed and easily maintained way to lock carbon out of the atmosphere Tiny microbes are at the heart of a novel agricultural technique to manage harmful g... Read more
A hydrogel could make deserts flourish with crops grown on barren sand. Here’s another futuristic invention that could completely change the future of agriculture in a desertifying world. S... Read more
