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 ...

Sustainable farming is crucial for food security and environmental preservation as global population grows towards 9.7 billion by 2050.

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 ...

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 some regions of the world, wild-caught insects have been a valuable source of protein for centuries. However, the mass farming of insects for food and feed is a modern practice. Over the last ...

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

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

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.

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 ...