'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
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
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
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
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
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
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