Agriculture & Food

A scenario in which every foreign bottom-trawl catch was kept for use in the country whose waters it came from would move up to 10.6 million people from inadequate to adequate nutrient intake,…

Imagine a field that has been tested. Someone takes soil cores, measures the microplastic in them, compares the result against the concentration at which harm is expected, and finds the field is…

A brewing yeast pulled from the wild, rather than engineered in a lab, can secrete more than nine times the usual amount of ornithine, a team at Japan's Nara Institute of Science and Technology…

Cocoa expanding onto land that was already farmed in Ghana is associated with food crops being pushed into nearby protected forest reserves, and with more forest cleared inside those reserves,…

Grasses carry two separate chemical routes for making starch, and their closest non-grass relatives carry only one, according to a University of Wisconsin–Madison release describing a paper published…

Farmers know the feeling before they can name it. A field that once filled the bins now comes up a little short, and then a little shorter, and the reason is not the weather this season or the seed.…

For years, the people trying to grow milk proteins inside plants have run into the same wall. A cow makes casein by the bucket because its mammary cells are built to package the stuff. A plant cell…