They say speed kills, but when it comes to growing enough food for our future, speed could spell the difference between feast and famine. Luckily, there’s a group of scientists with their proverbial ...

Unlike conventional farming methods, participatory plant breeding allows farmers to make their own decisions on which seeds to plant and thereby become part of the evolutionary process. The five ...

Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are often sold to farmers and the public on the grounds that they are the wave of the future, taking over where conventional plant breeding left off by improving ...

Over the last year, the world has been confronted with a new and overwhelming situation. A global pandemic has forced countries all over the world into repeated lockdowns, almost 1.9 million people ...

Animals that grow faster and eat less would have a lower carbon hoofprint. Highland cattle at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire (Joe Giddens/PA) Farmers could be ...

A young entrepreneur, Henry Adigun, is making a living by breeding dogs and farming in Iwo in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State. DANIEL ESSIET reports. HIS entrepreneurial ecumen blossomed ...

South Korea says it will end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry. The Environment Ministry said ...

Focusing on Ethiopia, a group of Italian and Ethiopian researchers have discovered that farmers' traditional crop knowledge can help plant breeders to pinpoint beneficial genetic traits in wheat ...