1. Family managed farming, organic and conventional, is in crisis in many areas because policy makers and the general public do not know what values would be lost if industrial agriculture swept the ...

Conventional food production and distribution systems degrade the environment due to several aspects, like overuse of ...

common practice in contemporary farming. Conventional produce can be grown with synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organism (GMO) practices, and more. Some conventional ...

To find out, we’re slicing into how they differ in ways that matter most to home cooks and conscious eaters, from how the ...

Organic farming, in general, is more profitable than conventional farming. This is the conclusion of a paper published by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2009. The author, Noémi Nemes, ...

Meanwhile, some types of indoor agriculture can produce more food in a fraction of the space used by conventional farming, leaving more space for nature outdoors. Creating new and sustainable food ...

Farming isn’t Josh Payne’s first vocation ... “When we got here it was a very, very conventional farm. Everything was commodity, corn and soy. Everything was Roundup ready.

A new breed of farmers in India are going beyond the lure of paddy and wheat MSP, and sowing unconventional cash crops that ...

Almost 400 pesticides are used in conventional farming, but only 26 have been approved for organic farming.So why are many non-organic farmers happy to use chemical pesticides? They all undergo a ...

In comparison to conventional multicellular platforms, plants offer superior speed, higher safety, and scalability for biopharmaceutical production. “Molecular farming started out with transgenic ...

Conventional methods are compromising the resilience of our ecosystems – but responsible food companies are championing ways of farming that improve them With concern mounting over the negative ...