Showing posts with label agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label agriculture. Show all posts
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Report Advocates GM Crops In Food Supply Measures

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Top of the crops: Government ministers are keen to embrace GM foods,like this modified soya crop. Photo from The Daily Mail From The Indepe...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Why Food Is Costing Us The Earth

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Coffee prices have risen sharply Photo: SIMON RAWLES From The Telegraph: The fight is on over how to solve our food crisis, but if we choo...
Sunday, July 5, 2009

Can American Farms Make Bamboo the Next Big Cash Crop?

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Could bamboo forests like these revive Mississippi Delta agriculture? (Photograph by David Sanger/Getty Images From Popular Mechanics: Bambo...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Is Farming The Root Of All Evil

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Cereal killer: the introduction of agriculture was followed by malnutrition and disease Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: Academics have c...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Robots Rolling Towards Farm Revolution

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A 3D laser ranging view of a Pennsylvania apple orchard can not only allow a mobile robot to pace its rows, but also captures detail of ever...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

New Science Could Defeat Food Crises

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Wheat Fields (Image from Cutting Edge News ) From The Guardian: Breakthroughs in microscopic engineering could boost shelf life of food and ...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Nearly A Billion People Go Hungry Every Day – Can GM Crops Help Feed Them?

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A protester vandalises a GM crop trial. Qualms about GM food may be a luxury Africa can ill afford. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA From The ...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Drought Resistance Is The Goal, But Methods Differ

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Jacqueline Heard directs Monsanto's program for drought-tolerant crops at its research center in Mystic, Connecticut. (Wendy Carlson for...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Emergence Of Agriculture In Prehistory Took Much Longer, Genetic Evidence Suggests

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A new mathematical model shows how plant agriculture actually began much earlier than first thought. It also shows that useful gene types co...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

How Far North Can You Grow Vegetables?

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Amanda Joynt waters her garden in an old hockey arena converted to a greenhouse for growing vegetables 124 miles north of the Arctic Circle ...

Farming In The Sky

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From Popsci.com Agriculture is broken. Traditional techniques use too much energy and produce too little food for our growing planet. One fi...