agriculture

Jan
31
'Buckshot' approach -- not silver bullet -- can help feed the world

'Buckshot' approach -- not silver bullet -- can help feed the world

What’s the greatest challenge to growing enough food to feed 7 billion – or even, eventually, 9 billion or more
4 min read
Jan
04

Worst use yet of the word "sustainable"

One of the latest WikiLeaks cables to be released highlights not only how adamant the US government is about promoting
1 min read
Nov
20

Insects have farmed monocultures longer than we have

Modern agriculture’s dependence on monoculture crops — vast fields of nothing but corn, wheat or soybeans — has been widely criticised
2 min read
Jun
15

New agency targets food, environment research

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn today launched the new Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) and opened its state-of-the-art facility in
1 min read
Mar
30

Research finds climate-responsive plant gene

Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford have identified the gene that controls plant growth as temperatures increase — a
1 min read
May
21

Food prices nothing to do with biofuels, says Bush govt

Scientists do sometimes get it wrong, you know. If Greenbang has a pound for every time she’d found an
1 min read
May
01

Carbon trading 'paid for by small business, car users'

In the land of the long white cloud, the Emissions Trading Scheme that sprung from the loins of the Kyoto
2 min read