Agricultural Production/Economics

Most complete population survey in 15 years will help inform Malaysian land use policyCredit: WWF-Malaysia, Lee Shan Kee Recent surveys of the population of endangered Bornean orangutans in Sabah, the Malaysian state in the north-east of…

The Cerrado is the largest savanna region in South America, but compared to the Amazon Forest to the North, it does not attract much attention. It is home to an incredible diversity of large mammal species including jaguar, the endangered…

Popular new crop needs research-based dataCredit: Photo by G. Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Blühen Botanicals and the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture are pleased to announce an agreement to conduct hemp…

Credit: Richard C. Cobb, Noam Ross, Katherine J. Hayden, Catherine A. Eyre, Richard S. Dodd, Susan J. Frankel, Matteo Garbelotto, and David M. Rizzo Science often reflects the priorities of dominant industries and ignores the needs…

Bee populations are declining, and neonicotinoid pesticides continue to be investigated -- and in some cases banned -- because of their suspected role as a contributing factor. However, limitations in sampling and analytical techniques…

Credit: Mark Holmes Products we commonly buy at the supermarket, such as tortillas and corn chips, are made from food grade corn. The corn is grown, harvested, bought by a food company, turned into masa (dough from ground…

GIS associate professor will study food waste management along Croatia's Adriatic coast Callie Babbitt, an associate professor in RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to study…

Credit: © 2019 KAUST The vast datasets generated by modern plant-science technologies require clever data-mining methods to extract useful information. Now, KAUST researchers have developed MVApp--an open-source, online…

Backgrounds colors matter when getting veggies to pop at the grocery storeCredit: BYU Photo Researchers from BYU and the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology may have figured out the secret to get people to buy more fresh produce:…

CORVALLIS, Ore. - In Oregon's fertile Willamette River Basin, where two-thirds of the state's population lives, managing water scarcity would be more effective if conservation measures were introduced in advance and upstream from the…