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Better Seeds. David Arky Strategies For A Changing Planet: Farming -- Popular Science Wheat, rice and corn provide 60 percent of the world...

This cow's ancestors can be traced back to a small number of wild aurochs, the ancestors of all domestic cattle. The find has implicatio...

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...

A new study found that organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically di...

Watch CBS News Videos Online From CBS News: Secure Crop Seed Bank on Arctic Island Hits Record Inventory 2 Years after 1st Samples Arrived. ...

A Kenyan Masai farmer stands next to his three cows exhausted by lack of nutrition near Kajiado, south of Nairobi. A NOAA environmental sate...

From Fabius Maximus: As usual with cutting edge research, the timing and significance of this is impossible for a layman to accurately acces...

From The Telegraph: British farming soil could run out within 60 years, leading to a catastrophic food crisis and drastically higher prices ...

Nasonia wasp: The wasps, which all fall in the Nasonia genus, also offer promise for genetic research. Photo: DPA From The Telegraph: Tiny...

From New Scientist: THE British may owe the French more than they care to admit. Archaeological finds from Britain show that farming was int...

From New Scientist: IT IS humanity's oldest enemy. Despite all our science, a sixth of people in the developing world are chronically hu...

The RS103-130, which is a deep red in colour, stays "crispy" for up to 14 days if kept in a fruit bowl - unlike most apples. Alamy...

A Better View of Soil NASA Earth Observatory From Popular Science: There was a time when a farmer simply tasted a clump of dirt to tell th...

Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute, at his farm in Salina, Kan. Richard Harris From NPR: We tend to think Earth can provide us with ...

Soybean sprouts struggling in dry conditions. Biologists have now solved the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive duri...

Oilseed rape, one of the four main commercial genetically modified crops Photo: EPA From The Telegraph: A new row over genetically modifie...

From BBC: An international seed bank has reached its target of collecting 10% of the world's wild plants, with seeds of a pink banana am...

From Live Science: Although genetics is very important in Parkinson disease (PD), many researchers believe that environmental exposures also...

BLEAK FUTURE?: A new report estimates that climate change will result in 25 million more malnourished children by 2050. © iStockphoto.com / ...

Photo: Human urine mixed with wood ash was the ultimate eco-friendly fertiliser, according to researchers From The Daily Mail: Gardeners kee...