Tag: sustainable agriculture

Maize feeds the world. It is the backbone of global food, feed and industrial systems, and its cultivation has expanded ...

The papaya, that sweet orange-fleshed fruit sitting unassumingly in supermarket produce aisles across the tropics, is enjoying a moment of ...

A new review highlights how microalgae and cyanobacteria can serve as sustainable, circular-economy biopesticides against insects, fungi, weeds, and nematodes.

Brazilian scientists report that aqueous grape pomace extract, especially when prepared by cold extraction, suppresses germination and seedling development of ...

Beneath the world's farmland lies one of agriculture's strangest assets: an estimated 3.5 billion tons of phosphorus, quietly banked in ...

On the steep, stony slopes of southern Ethiopia, farmers have transformed terrain that appears almost hostile to agriculture into a ...

A fertilizer made from marine purple bacteria is drawing attention as a possible way to make vegetable production more efficient ...

Agriculture may be entering a new era in which crops are judged not only by how much food they produce, ...

A groundbreaking study published in the journal Biochar reveals a promising agricultural practice that could revolutionize nitrogen management and soil ...

Rice straw management has long been a cornerstone of sustainable agriculture, but a groundbreaking study reveals that converting rice straw ...