1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (74+ words) Sub-Saharan Africa is running out of time and topsoil. A sweeping new meta-analysis synthesizing 317 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and 2025 has delivered the most comprehensive quantitative verdict yet on whether biologically derived inputs and engineered materials can rescue the region’s collapsing…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (679+ words) A team of researchers in Peru has built a system that can fly a drone over a Hass avocado orchard and, in real time, tell a farmer not only where every visible fruit is hanging but also how ripe each…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (74+ words) Sorghum has long lived in the shadow of wheat, rice, maize, and barley, ranking fifth among the world’s cereals with global production of roughly 61 million tons. Yet a sweeping new review published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Research…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (548+ words) On Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, the cashew tree has long been more than a crop; it is a livelihood anchor for tens of thousands of rural households. Yet the nut that once sustained Kilifi County’s farm economy is in trouble....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (694+ words) Wheat may owe part of its hidden armor to an unlikely ally growing beside it. A new glasshouse study published in Plant and Soil shows that when wheat plants share a pot with chickpea, they accumulate significantly more silicon in…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (86+ words) Meat has shaped human history in ways few other foods can claim. From the earliest days of hominin evolution, regular consumption of animal flesh supplied the dense energy that scientists believe fueled the expansion of the human brain, the development…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (95+ words) Farmers have long faced a stubborn trade-off: till the soil deeply enough to loosen compacted layers and boost root growth, and you risk destroying the delicate structure that makes soil fertile in the first place. Now a pair of researchers…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (69+ words) Asia now stands at the center of one of the most consequential transformations in the global food system. The region accounts for more than 40 percent of the world’s meat production, and according to the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook, global meat output…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (659+ words) Brazil sits at the heart of the global bioethanol economy, cultivating more than eight million hectares of sugarcane to supply renewable fuel for domestic consumption and export markets. As worldwide demand for low-carbon energy intensifies, researchers face a pressing question:…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (88+ words) A single irrigation sensor can mean the difference between a thriving field and a thirsty one, but new research suggests that the same sensor reading may tell two entirely different stories depending on the soil it is buried in. In…...