agriculture

After so much pain, Greece must now figure out how to get its economy back on its feet

In small wet rice fields, or suiden, across Japan, farmers don rubber boots to slosh through the fields ...

Following numerous food scandals in China, many victimized Chinese have turned to organics as a safer alternative. But ...

An insecticide currently in development targets a specific gene so it kills only those bugs that threaten crops ...

Large-scale organic farming operations aren’t reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a review of almost a decade of ...

The “slow money” movement seeks to match locally produced and environmentally friendly food and artisanal products and services ...

The overwhelming scientific consensus is that gases produced by human activity are affecting the global climate.

Farmers should worry about how many individual wild bees they have pollinating their fields, not how many kinds ...

If countries and farmers make adjustments in what crops they grow and where, then the effects of climate ...

Researchers have also found a way to reduce the pesticides' damaging effects on wild bees.

Two facts are indisputable: California remains in the grip of one of the worst droughts in history, and ...

Worldwide, the bulk of water use is tied to agriculture – it accounts for approximately 66% of water ...

The agriculture and food sectors are teeming with opportunities for young college graduates, says the federal government.

 By now, anyone who has a TV or computer has seen appalling scenes of farm cruelty against chickens, ...

The latest group to use drones for commercial purposes are farmers, who use the machines to survey their ...

"Staying Alive," was emblematic for "Saturday Night Fever" in 1976. But what does a beat so disco-slick and ...

It's midmorning and hundreds of people are squeezed under a banyan tree's shady canopy to have blood drawn ...

The mystery behind skyrocketing rates of Celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and other wheat-related illnesses may not have anything ...

The plant at the heart of the cocaine trade has survived decades of efforts to eradicate it. What’s ...

Stratfor Editor-in-Chief David Judson and Science and Technology Analyst Rebecca Keller discuss the highlights of an upcoming series ...

The vast majority of milk consumed in the world today is pasteurized, even though it is less nutritious ...

PARIS, France—From 28 to 30 September, the Ministers of Agriculture of the European Union gathered for an informal ...

ROME—Brussels takes action to help European countries affected by the Russian embargo against the agri-food sector. Big money ...

Two plants can communicate with each other by swapping messenger molecules, according to new findings by a Virginia ...

Epoch Times brings you news from across the nation for August 11, 2014.

PARIS—This year seems to be atypical for agriculture in the French region Île-de-France. With no less than 11.9 ...

Maybe you were too busy this spring to give your garden much love. Or maybe your plants have ...