Relying on a handful of crops makes the entire system more vulnerable to pests, disease, and climate shocks. By cultivating a ...

Is organic farming the only alternative to conventional agriculture to promote biodiversity in agricultural landscapes? An international research team questions this. According to the authors, a ...

Graeme Martin has received funding from the Australian Research Council, Meat & Livestock Australia, and the Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation. Biodiversity and farming go head to ...

"Their numbers are increasing," Dr. Cynthia Scott-Dupree, professor of sustainable pest management at the University of ...

Humans depend on farming for their survival but this activity takes up more than one-third of the world's landmass and endangers 62% of all threatened species. However, agricultural landscapes can ...

Mining, agriculture and industry are expanding rapidly across Africa, yet current tools to quantify and minimise the cost of ...

Organic farming increases biodiversity at every level of the food chain – all the way from lowly bacteria to mammals. This is the conclusion of the largest review ever done of studies from around the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Toensmeier: In order to avoid catastrophic climate change we need to return to 350 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide or below. Even if we stopped ...