AgriTech Review

Every year, contaminated food sickens more than one in ten people worldwide and is estimated to cause over 4.2 million deaths, according to figures from the World Health Organization cited in a sweeping new review published in Food Science & Nutrition. Against that backdrop, researchers argue that artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic curiosity […]

Neonicotinoid insecticides have long been scrutinized for their effects on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, but a new study suggests that another, far less visible set of victims may be sitting quietly in the dirt beneath treated crops. Soil fungi, the microscopic architects of healthy farmland, appear to shift in diversity and composition after exposure […]

Beneath every forest floor, an invisible war and an uneasy truce unfold simultaneously. Bacteriophages, the viruses that infect soil bacteria, can rupture their hosts in a burst of viral replication, or they can quietly integrate their genomes into bacterial chromosomes and ride along as dormant passengers, a state known as lysogeny. While viral lysis has […]

For decades, one of the most intuitive ideas in soil science has been that more reactive minerals in the ground should mean more carbon locked away. Clays and silts are studded with charged cations such as calcium, magnesium, aluminum and iron, which can grab organic molecules and bind them into stable compounds that resist microbial […]

A team of Bangladeshi agricultural researchers has shown that an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled, sensor-driven drip irrigation system can grow eggplants with dramatically less water, fertilizer, and labor than conventional farming, while matching or slightly exceeding the yields that traditional practices deliver. The field trial, conducted at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) in […]

Plastic pollution has quietly become one of the defining contamination problems of the modern era, and its most troubling dimension may be the smallest. A new peer-reviewed review published in the journal Microplastics and Nanoplastics by Javad Karimi of Shiraz University in Iran and Sachin Seth and Reshma Sinha of Central University of Himachal Pradesh […]

Every year, farms around the world discard millions of tons of biomass—rice straw, corn stover, sugarcane bagasse, fruit peels, oilseed cakes, and animal by-products—much of which is burned in open fields or left to rot, releasing carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere. A new open-access review published in Discover Industrial Chemistry and […]

Scientists have often thought of cells as small, bustling cities with parts that resemble factories, power grids and shipping systems. While past research has illuminated the individual components of these cell cities, scientists haven't had the tools to probe more deeply into how those elements interact.

California agriculture takes center stage in the latest AgNet NewsHour, as Nick Papagni, the Ag Meter, talks with fourth-generation Bakersfield farmer Jason Giannelli and Patrick Williams of SkySense about some ... Read More The post California Water, Farming and Ag Technology in Focus appeared first on AgNet West.

Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help keep your home a bit cooler next summer.

Every oyster farm in South Korea’s southern coastal waters floats on a quiet environmental disaster. Roughly 24 million expanded polystyrene buoys bob among the country’s 55 million aquaculture floats, and as they grind against waves, bake in ultraviolet light, and cycle between soaking and drying, they shed microscopic fragments directly into the waters where oysters […]

In the rice fields of northern Bangladesh, the timing of a pest invasion is written in the weather. A six-year monitoring study conducted at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute’s regional station in Rangpur has now mapped, month by month and season by season, how the region’s most damaging rice insects and their natural enemies rise […]

A single bowl of wild vegetable soup was enough to trigger one of the most sobering plant-poisoning investigations published in recent years. In a study released in BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, a team from the Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention and collaborating institutions in China describes a fatal familial poisoning incident in […]

Chinese agriculture has long been trapped in a thorny triangle of interlocking problems: farmers apply too much chemical fertilizer, conventional plastic mulch film lingers in the soil for decades, and the vast mountains of livestock manure generated by the country’s animal husbandry sector go largely unused. Each of these problems feeds the others. Over-fertilization acidifies […]

Every year, vast quantities of nitrogen fertilizer applied to pastures and croplands are transformed by soil microbes into nitrate, a form of nitrogen that slips easily through soil into waterways and feeds the production of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. For decades, farmers have fought this transformation […]

Forests provide timber as well as many other ecosystem services. An important question is how measures to conserve biodiversity affect the profitability of forest operations focused on wood production. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and the University of Freiburg reviewed studies worldwide that compared forest management with biodiversity conservation measures against business-as-usual management without those measures. The work is published in the journal Current Forestry Reports.

In a finding that could reshape how agricultural knowledge reaches some of the world’s poorest farmers, a new study from Malawi reports that more than 86 percent of smallholder farmers are willing to pay for agricultural extension and advisory services that have historically been delivered free of charge by the state. The research, conducted across […]

Soil moisture is the quiet variable that decides whether a season ends in harvest or hunger. It governs how rainfall splits between infiltration and runoff, how much water plants can actually reach, and how the land exchanges energy with the atmosphere. Now, the first national-scale synthesis of soil moisture science in Kenya has mapped exactly […]

A field experiment in Punjab, India, has shown that pairing ordinary soil bacteria with zinc and iron nanoparticles can push garden pea plants to grow faster, yield more pods, and pack in more protein and vitamins, all while improving the soil they grow in. The study, conducted at Lovely Professional University in Phagwara during the […]

In the parched farmlands of the world’s semi-arid belts, crops rarely face one threat at a time. A field of wheat or maize may be sown into saline soil, endure weeks without rain, then be hammered by a heatwave just as pathogens arrive. Scientists have long known that plants respond differently to combined stresses than […]

Glycerol, the humble three-carbon alcohol churned out by the billion litres every year as a by-product of biodiesel production, has long been a paradox of the green chemistry movement. For every ten kilograms of biodiesel manufactured, roughly one kilogram of glycerol is generated, and while the fuel itself finds eager markets, the co-product frequently accumulates […]

On the dusty, wind-scoured terraces of China’s semiarid Loess Plateau, apple growers have long wrestled with a stubborn paradox: the region’s deep, well-drained loess soils are ideal for fruit trees, yet decades of intensive cultivation and heavy chemical fertilization have left many orchards degraded, compacted, and starved of organic matter. Now, a three-year field experiment […]

Shrimp farming has become one of the world’s fastest-growing food industries, and India now ranks as the second-largest shrimp farming nation on the planet. But behind every plate of farmed shrimp lies a hidden cost: effluent water loaded with ammonium, nitrate, and phosphate that flows into coastal ecosystems, triggering algal blooms, oxygen depletion, and mass […]

New analyses of ancient cattle, sheep and goat bones on Madagascar suggest the rapid spread of introduced livestock on the island 1,200 years ago coincided with forest loss and population declines of large native herbivores.

Howard Buffett becomes Berkshire Hathaway chairman after Warren Buffett steps down, taking responsibility for protecting the $1.1T company's culture.

Scientists from the Biosciences Department at Durham University have outlined possible new approaches to protecting crops from devastating diseases by finding common weaknesses in the proteins pathogens use to attack plants. The researchers presented their ideas in a recent review article in The Plant Journal.

McDonald's shares fell 4.81% after it unveiled its $8.5bn NEXT strategy to modernise restaurants and revive customer traffic amid weak sales.

The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio partner to advance AI-powered agriculture

California agriculture faces constant changes in labor regulations, water management and operating costs, making timely information increasingly important for farmers and ranchers. On the latest AgNet News Hour, “The Ag ... Read More The post AgNet News Hour: Farm Labor, Water Tech in Focus appeared first on AgNet West.

War has always destroyed harvests, but a sweeping new analysis published in Nature Food shows just how systematically armed conflict strips the planet of its farmland. By combining annual, high-resolution cropland maps covering the years 2000 to 2020 with a database of more than 460,000 recorded conflict events across 155 countries, a team of researchers […]

Walk down any supermarket aisle and the packages seem to be shouting about wellness. More than half of new food products launched in the United States now carry some kind of health-related claim on the front of the pack, yet only about a third of those products would actually qualify as nutritious by objective measures. […]

The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio collab to advance AI-powered agriculture

Some Samsung Bespoke AI refrigerator owners in South Korea say an official SmartThings update caused cooling failures and other problems before Chuseok, prompting an emergency recovery operation.

Soils harbor some of the most diverse life on Earth. Soil nematodes play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem functions. Yet how their diversity changes across large landscapes, and what drives those changes, remains poorly understood.

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet it is famously a child of the tropics. When cold snaps strike young seedlings in high-latitude or high-altitude paddies, entire harvests can be stunted before they ever begin. Now a team of Chinese researchers has pinpointed a single gene that helps rice seedlings shrug off chilling temperatures, […]

A sprawling new review published in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials argues that one of the least glamorous corners of materials science—metal-organic framework and polymer hybrids, or MOF/polymer hybrids—may quietly reshape nearly every link in the modern food chain, from the pesticide droplet that lands on a leaf to the plastic film that wraps a […]

Across the United States, the farming population is aging out of agriculture faster than new growers are arriving, and many of the newcomers stepping into the gap have no farming parents, no inherited land, and no generational playbook to fall back on. A new study published in Discover Agriculture examines a small but strategically important […]

In the flooded paddies of Qianjiang, in China’s Hubei Province, farmers have long paired two very different crops: rice above the water and red swamp crayfish below it. A new 13-month field study published in Advanced Biotechnology now reveals just how deeply this ancient pairing rewires the invisible world beneath the mud. By tracking soil […]

Biochar has been heralded as one of agriculture’s most seductive fixes: a charcoal-like material that locks carbon into the ground for centuries, buoys soil fertility, and echoes the legendary Amazonian Terra Preta soils that sustained ancient civilizations. But a three-year field experiment on a Kentucky silt loam, published in Discover Soil, delivers a sobering and […]

Modern agriculture has quietly become one of the most data-intensive industries on the planet. Fields dotted with soil sensors, drones overhead, automated irrigation lines, and networked greenhouses generate continuous streams of telemetry that must be routed to cloud servers, analyzed, and turned into decisions within seconds. As farms scale up their digital infrastructure, the plumbing […]

Beneath every flooded rice paddy lies an architecture most people never think about: a three-dimensional labyrinth of soil crumbs, ranging from grit-like microaggregates to chunky clumps visible to the naked eye. How those crumbs are sized, how tightly they hold together, and how much organic carbon they trap inside their pores may sound like arcane […]

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Deep in the semiarid backlands of northeastern Brazil, where cracked soils and scorching temperatures test the limits of plant life, an invisible treasure is being unearthed from the roots of wild peanut relatives. A team of Brazilian researchers has cataloged a strikingly diverse community of Bradyrhizobium bacteria living in the root nodules of three wild […]

Soils are not silent. Beneath every forest floor and every paddy field, trillions of microorganisms are dismantling organic matter, releasing carbon dioxide and cycling the nutrients on which entire ecosystems depend. A new study from the humid tropical state of Tripura in Northeast India shows just how dramatically the way we use land reshapes this […]

Imagine standing in front of a screen that shows a living, breathing replica of your farm: every soil moisture probe, every greenhouse sensor, every tractor and irrigation valve represented as a stream of data that updates in real time. You can change the weather in this virtual world, test a new irrigation schedule, or simulate […]

Beneath every healthy field lies a bustling marketplace of chemical signals, where soil bacteria trade molecules that can make or break a crop’s fortunes. A new open-access study published in the journal Microbial Ecology has now mapped that chemical marketplace in unprecedented detail, charting the metabolites produced by laboratory-cultured consortia of Bacillus bacteria that are […]

Wisconsin dairy farmer Abby Swan says she is milking 300 cows largely alone while facing an acute labour shortage, rising costs and online criticism over her political views.

Every autumn, across the rolling farmland of northern Europe, fleets of massive harvesters rumble through sugar beet fields, tearing the pale, tapering roots from the soil at a rate of dozens of tonnes per hour. It is a brutal, high-speed operation, and the crop pays a price. Beets get their tops sliced too deeply during […]

In a finding that could reshape how the world farms its shrimp, researchers in Malaysia have mapped, at the level of individual genes, how the Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei rewires its biology when raised in biofloc technology, a farming approach that replaces frequent water changes with dense communities of beneficial microbes. The study, conducted […]

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Suppliers say that stressing efficacy over novelty is key to new products gaining market acceptance. The post From Nanotech to AI: Rethinking Micronutrient Delivery appeared first on CropLife.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB) each year. It is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. Treatment is lengthy and typically involves a combination of several antibiotics over many months. Drug-resistant strains are particularly problematic because the antibiotics used against them are only partially effective. New compounds capable of overcoming existing resistance are urgently needed.

Microorganisms regulate key processes in soils and aquifers, including nutrient cycling, carbon turnover and contaminant degradation. Many bacteria use chemotaxis, the ability to sense and swim toward chemical signals, to locate nutrient-rich hotspots. However, natural subsurface environments are highly heterogeneous, containing complex pore networks that create strong variations in fluid flow and nutrient availability. How these physical conditions influence bacterial foraging has remained poorly understood.

In a discovery as broad and far-reaching as the Big Muddy itself, a new Yale–led study says farmers in the Mississippi River Basin are storing more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the soil than they emit when they add limestone to their fields, an agricultural practice known as "liming."

A substantial number of Samsung fridge owners have been left without any way to chill their food.

The farm bailout plan leaves US growers waiting on Congress as their bills rise; learn what the aid covers, who would get it, and when a vote could come.

The project is relevant for the Arkhangelsk Region which has been developing actively the use of local biofuels in municipal energy

New research in Plants, People, Planet demonstrates how precision agriculture techniques involving drones and sensor-based irrigation can save water needed to produce tomatoes and grapes while also improving the quality of these crops.

Grassland plants transfer large amounts of carbon to soil through their roots, and most of that carbon is stored underground. Therefore, promoting soil carbon storage can help combat climate change. Grazers feed on grassland plants, and conventional wisdom often assumes that removing grazers benefits carbon storage, but a new study in Global Change Biology Communications reveals that the opposite may be the case.

Beneath every scorched European heathland lies an invisible workforce: saprotrophic fungi that decompose dead plant material, recycle nutrients, and keep ecosystems running. As climate change pushes summer soil temperatures ever higher, scientists have wondered how these microscopic decomposers cope when a heatwave strikes. A new experimental study, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, offers one […]

arXiv:2609.25725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural robotics is advancing rapidly, yet progress remains constrained by limited field access, lack of control over field conditions, geographic variability, and seasonal crop cycles. These factors make it difficult and costly to acquire diverse agricultural datasets, resulting in limited evaluation and reduced system robustness. While other robotics domains have scaled learning and evaluation through high-fidelity simulation, agricultural robotics still lacks comparably capable tools. In this paper, we present a ROS-integrated framework, built on Isaac Sim, for large-scale procedural generation of agricultural environments. The framework supports photorealistic rendering, physics simulation, and domain randomization at scales relevant to robotics research, with built-in support for row crops, orchards, and vineyards and straightforward extensibility to additional crop categories. Project Page: https://baj31415.github.io/agrigen/

arXiv:2609.25657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We increasingly use machine learning to label scientific datasets. The models we develop and deploy are improving all the time, but they are not and will likely never be perfect. Mistakes matter, as errors can propagate into our scientific understanding, particularly when systematically biased. Very reasonably, scientists thus review substantial proportions of ML-generated labels to verify or correct mistakes in pursuit of ensuring their scientific findings are not biased by ML. In this work, we focus on helping scientists optimally allocate this reviewing effort relative to their scientific goals. We focus on a specific class of scientists (ecologists) and a specific, widespread, and impactful modeling target (occupancy modeling, which estimates where species are likely to occur, conditioned on environmental factors). We introduce Active Continuous-Score Occupancy Modeling (ACORN), a method that incorporates ML predictions into

Agriculture in Egypt is running at barely half of its sustainable potential, according to a new integrated assessment that puts hard numbers on one of the world’s most water-stressed farming systems. A study published in Discover Agriculture by Rasha Elazab of Capital University in Cairo introduces a quadruple-bottom-line sustainability framework that simultaneously evaluates the technical, […]

One of the largest studies ever conducted on the early-life home environment has found that the physical and biological characteristics of a family’s home may shape a baby’s vulnerability to respiratory infections during the first year and a half of life. Drawing on health data from roughly 48,000 children enrolled in the Danish National Birth […]

Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the defining health threats of the twenty-first century, and few organisms embody the problem as completely as Escherichia coli. A new comparative genomic study of multidrug-resistant E. coli circulating in Bangladeshi poultry farms, published in MicrobiologyOpen, offers a detailed look at how these bacteria carry their resistance arsenals, how […]

How can regions better adapt their water and soil resources to the impacts of climate change? After four years of research, the European collaborative project Blue Transition, led by the LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics in Hanover, takes stock. The final report brings together the findings from 16 pilot regions in six countries and identifies three key levers to strengthen climate resilience: changing land use, improving soil health and diversifying water resources and optimizing their use.

On cattle farms scattered across the forest-savannah mosaic of Kwara State in north-central Nigeria, a quiet disconnect is emerging between what farmers know about parasitic worms and what they understand about the drugs used to defeat them. A new cross-sectional survey, published in BMC Agriculture, has found that while most cattle farmers in the state […]

Bitterness is one of the most stubborn problems in modern food production. During the fermentation of kefir, the ripening of Parmesan and mountain cheese, or the processing of protein powders and hydrolysates, proteins are broken down into smaller fragments called peptides. Some of these peptides bind to bitter taste receptors on the human tongue, and […]

Researchers at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) in Mexico have unveiled TOTEM, a fully open-source, solar-powered aeroponic system that grows crops vertically with no connection to the electrical grid. Described in the journal HardwareX, the platform combines a 1.5-meter-tall cultivation tower, automated misting irrigation, embedded sensing, and photovoltaic energy storage in a […]

A bumper harvest is not always a safe harvest. That is the unsettling conclusion of a sweeping new review published in the journal Discover Soil, which synthesizes global evidence showing that industrial waste is contaminating agricultural soils with heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, microplastics, PFAS and engineered nanoparticles — often without any visible effect on […]

Rice feeds more people on Earth than almost any other crop, yet every growing season its fields are besieged by pathogens and insects that can devastate yields. A new study published in Genome Biology has uncovered an unexpected layer of the plant’s defensive machinery: a small chemical modification attached to histone proteins, the spools around […]

Plant-based burgers, dairy-free cheeses, and meat analogues live or die by their texture, yet predicting how a new formulation will feel in the mouth remains one of the most stubborn challenges in food science. Mechanical and rheological properties of dense food structures emerge from tangled interactions among proteins, polysaccharides, moisture, and processing history, so two […]

In a country better known for its mountains than its fish farms, a team of Afghan researchers has delivered the first systematic look at how water chemistry shapes the health and growth of farmed rainbow trout at one of Afghanistan’s most important aquaculture facilities. The study, conducted at Qargha Fish Farm on the outskirts of […]

One of the most widely used green tools in modern agriculture may be losing its power in a way few growers have witnessed so clearly. A new study of the striped rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis, one of Asia’s most destructive rice pests, has documented for the first time in this species that five consecutive […]

A groundbreaking life cycle assessment of 90 commonly consumed Indonesian foods has revealed staggering differences in how efficiently the country’s staples deliver nutrition relative to their environmental cost, with efficiencies varying by up to 211 times within a single food group. The study, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, is among the […]

Haemorrhagic septicemia, an acute and often fatal bacterial disease of cattle and buffalo caused by Pasteurella multocida serotypes B:2 and E:2, continues to defy decades of vaccination efforts across the endemic regions of Asia and Africa. A comprehensive new review, published in the journal Discover Animals, has undertaken the most detailed comparative assessment yet of […]

A sweeping new review argues that a technology capable of reading a soil’s chemistry from the way it reflects light could transform how the world tests its farmland, but only if scientists confront several long-standing assumptions they have largely left untested. The analysis, published in Discover Soil, synthesizes more than nine decades of research on […]

Cultured meat has long promised a future in which real muscle tissue is grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from slaughtered animals, yet the industry has been quietly haunted by an uncomfortable paradox. The cell culture medium that nourishes growing meat cells almost universally depends on fetal bovine serum, or FBS, a substance harvested from […]

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received an $18 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to carry its climate-focused plant research out of the laboratory and into farmers’ fields. The three-year project, known as ROOTS, will test whether soybean plants engineered to grow deeper, stronger roots can lock more carbon into soil while […]

The soundtrack playing over a restaurant’s speakers rarely registers as a deliberate influence on what ends up on the plate. Yet a growing body of research in sensory marketing and consumer psychology argues that ambient sound is one of the most powerful, and least noticed, forces shaping eating behavior. A new study published in npj […]

Digital agriculture has promised a revolution in how farms are managed, from GPS-guided machinery and IoT sensors to sophisticated farm management platforms that stream real-time information about crops, soil, and livestock. Yet a new study from Western Canada suggests that the hardest part of this transformation may not be convincing farmers to buy the technology, […]

A humble by-product of lily bulb processing, long discarded as agricultural waste, may be on the verge of becoming one of the poultry industry’s most intriguing feed additives. In a new study published in Food Science & Nutrition, researchers in Hunan, China, report that a water extract prepared from the core of edible lily bulbs […]

In the semi-arid highlands of northern Ethiopia, where livestock sustain thousands of farming households and rainfall has grown increasingly unreliable, a new study offers a rare moment of good news: the remedies for degraded grazing lands may already be known, both by the ecologists who measure them and by the farmers who have lived with […]

Sheep grazing, rather than honey bees, could be the bigger threat to wild pollinators on Scotland's moorlands, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The research, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, has found that grazing in spring can remove much of the nectar emerging bumblebees need, while commercial honey bee hives introduced during the summer heather flowering period have a much smaller impact.

Milk is one of the most climate-sensitive commodities on Earth. Global production hovers between roughly 940 and 966 million tons a year, and even small dips ripple through prices, processing capacity, and food security. Now, researchers report that a carefully engineered hybrid artificial intelligence model can forecast how much milk an individual cow will produce […]

Rice bran is a plentiful agricultural byproduct that is often underused, but research from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station shows it could be a source of biodegradable food packaging with built-in antibacterial properties.

Every year, the world applies millions of tonnes of agrochemicals to crops and consumes billions of doses of pharmaceuticals, yet the safety story rarely ends when these compounds do their intended job. Once released into soil, water, and the human body, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and drugs are transformed by sunlight, microbes, plants, and metabolism into […]

The economic viability of second-generation bioethanol has long been held hostage by a single line item on the balance sheet: the cost of commercial cellulase enzymes. Breaking down tough lignocellulosic biomass—agricultural residues, forestry waste, and industrial byproducts—into fermentable sugars requires expensive enzyme cocktails that can account for a substantial share of total production costs. Now, […]

Maize is the backbone of Uganda’s food economy, feeding millions of people every day and supplying millers, traders and regional export markets with one of East Africa’s most important staple grains. Yet a new study from northern Uganda suggests that the very farmers who produce the bulk of the country’s maize often know surprisingly little […]

In the densely populated highlands of eastern Ethiopia, smallholder farmers are watching their climate change in real time, and most of them are responding without any help from formal institutions. A new study of 384 farming households in Kersa District, in the East Hararghe Zone of Oromia, reveals that while nearly every farmer surveyed has […]

Milk is one of the most closely monitored foods in the world, screened routinely for bacteria, antibiotic residues, and a long list of environmental pollutants. Yet a new study from Switzerland suggests that an unexpected class of contaminants may have been slipping past regulators and consumers alike: the chemical additives that give rubber its elasticity, […]

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Rice feeds more than half the world’s population, and in Tanzania it has quietly become the second most important food and cash crop after maize. Yet a striking new analysis of nationally representative census data reveals that only a tiny fraction of Tanzanian rice farmers are planting the improved seed varieties that could transform their […]

Waterlogging is quietly emerging as one of the most underestimated threats to agriculture in Ethiopia, and a new study published in npj Sustainable Agriculture offers the most detailed picture yet of where the problem strikes, why it is getting worse, and what farmers can realistically do about it. By combining agrohydrological modeling with field-scale analysis, […]

A sweeping new review argues that CRISPR-based gene editing could become one of the most consequential tools ever applied to African agriculture, but only if the continent can close persistent gaps in laboratory infrastructure, regulation, funding and seed delivery. The analysis, published in the journal Discover Agriculture, synthesizes nearly a decade of evidence on gene […]

Rice feeds more than 3.5 billion people and covers roughly 165 million hectares of the planet, yet the way it is grown across South and Southeast Asia is quietly undermining the very soils that sustain it. A sweeping new systematic review, synthesizing 109 peer-reviewed studies and institutional reports published between January 2000 and March 2025, […]

North Carolina farmer Matt Bell says soaring diesel, fertiliser and equipment costs are threatening his livelihood, prompting him to question Trump's policies while remaining a Republican.