Source: princeton.edu Published: August 22, 2017 A research team led by Princeton University surveyed a 3-hectare area that had been covered in orange peels in the 1990s. They found a 176 percent increase in aboveground biomass — or the wood in the trees,...
Source: arabfinance.com Published: August 16, 2017 Amwal Alghad Cairo: Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed Tuesday a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched...
Source: salon.com Published Date: August 12, 2017 (cjp via iStock) Matthew Wallenstein This article was originally published on The Conversation. Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer. What...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 20, 2017 by Amanda Froelich Most people in Western countries reflect on Africa as a continent in which poverty is rife and economic opportunities are lacking. While this may be true in some cases, it’s a fixable problem. This is...
Source: greenbiz.com Published: March 26, 2016 Shutterstock By Eric Toensmeier The following originally appeared on Ensia, and is adapted from “The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate...
Source: alternet.org Published: August 17, 2015 Written by Leah Penniman Affectionately called “Professor” by his neighbors, Josefino Martinez is a well-respected indigenous farmer and community organizer from the remote town of Chicahuaxtla, in the Mexican state of...
Source: eurekalert.org Published: June 22, 2017 IMAGE: Untold Stories: Forty Years of Field Research on Root Diseases of Wheat now available from APS PRESS. Dr. R. James (Jim) Cook, a retired research plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural...
Source: dailyyonder.com Published: May 15, 2017 Healthy soil needs to be relatively undisturbed and covered by crops that are planted in rotation. Photo by Photo by Rob Mattson/Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation by Bryce Oates A global study of land and agricultural...
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: September 26, 2016 Finger millet field. Source: University of Guelph Summary: Plant scientists have shown for the first time how an ancient crop teams up with a beneficial microbe to protect against a devastating fungal infection, a...
