agriculture

Lifestyle
The enduring harvest of the ‘Tears of Chios’
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Syed Sajjad Ali inspects tomatoes planted inside a Kheyti greenhouse.
The Big Fix
This greenhouse innovation helps farmers in India cope with climate change
The hydroponic tomato plants at Ráječek Farm rely on manufactured fertilizer to grow.
Ukraine
War in Ukraine sparks fertilizer crisis that may impact the future of global food production
The walnut forests of southern Kyrgyzstan sprawl along the tops of steep hills. They are believed to be the largest natural walnut forest on earth.
Environment
Kyrgyzstan’s walnut forests dwindle with increased cattle farming, climate change
Forest firefighters work on a wildfire near the town of Jubrique, in Malaga province, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. 
Climate Change
‘Fire flocks’ of sheep and goats get deployed to help battle forest fires in Spain
Poop from the rhinoceros beetle makes for cleaner fertilizer. 
Climate Change
This Colombian company is trying to convince farmers to use beetle poop fertilizer
The book cover for "Eating to Extinction," by Dan Saladino.
‘Eating to Extinction’ author rallies for a more diverse global food system
An espresso machine with coffee beans from around the world featured in the background.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Drought, frost takes a massive toll on coffee crops in Brazil
soy field
Business
Brazil’s soy boom takes a toll on traditional farming communities
A worker arranges yellow ginseng displays behind glass cases
Business, Economics and Jobs
American ginseng farmers battered by trade wars and pandemic
Sikhs wave the Nishan Sahib, a Sikh religious flag, as they arrive at the historic Red Fort monument in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021.  
Business, Economics and Jobs
Indian farmers’ widespread protests are about ‘income inequality,’ activists say
A photo of Leydy Pech, a Mayan beekeeper
Environment
Mayan beekeepers launch legal battle to protect the environment
Man shopping in the produce section of an American grocery store
Food
The behind-the-shelves story of American supermarkets
Iowa farmland loss to development
Business, Economics and Jobs
US lost 11 million acres of farmland to development in past 2 decades
Migrant farmworkers harvest corn
Justice
Migrant farmworkers in US deemed essential — but lack basic protections
A man reaches up to plants
Food
How are we going to feed ourselves when there are 10 billion people on the planet?
Borneo rainforest
Health & Medicine
In Borneo, healthy people equals healthy forests
Young man crawls through fence with bicycle
Business, Economics and Jobs
Italy’s mafia gets richer as ‘security decree’ strips migrant rights
A man holds soybeans in his hands.
Business, Economics and Jobs
How soybeans became China’s most powerful weapon in Trump’s trade war
A white woman wearing a white shirt and a cowgirl hat stands in a field in front of cows.
Food
Montana ranchers are kicking up dust to bring back country of origin labels on meat
Campesinos working in Tlalquiltenango, Morelos, Mexico. 
Why food insecurity is a global farmworker issue
Farmers bend to harvest and grow plants.
Food
‘Farming While Black’: Cultivating food- and racial-justice in upstate New York
Close up of a grain.
Food
Maine is scaling up its local grain economy
Longhorn cattle on Knepp Estate
Environment
A pioneering ‘rewilding’ project in England transforms a 200-year-old family farm
Crops were damaged in Puerto Rico
Environment
After Hurricane Maria, farmers in Puerto Rico struggle to rebuild
Tractor spraying glyphosate
Health & Medicine
Bayer faces billion-dollar losses related to legal claims of deadly Roundup herbicide
North American beaver
Environment
‘Beaver Believers’ say dam-building creatures can make the American West lush again
Maize weevil
Climate Change
Study: Climate change will bring more pests, crop losses
Javier picks cherries
Environment
Researchers explore a pesticide link to asthma in farmworkers’ children
Farmers Get Relief as Tariffs Hit Home
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Farmers
Environment
The 2018 farm bill stirs conflict and controversy
Broiler chickens
Food
As demand for organics grows, the US relies more on imported products
a solar panel farm in China
Environment
Energy and food together: Under solar panels, crops thrive
Arts, Culture & Media
Maize Maze
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Verlyn Klinkenborg
Arts, Culture & Media
Tractors
Arts, Culture & Media
Tractors
A biting midge pollinates a cacao flower on the Goodman Cacao Estate in Killaloe, Australia.
Food
Giant chocolate industry depends on tiny insects for survival
Refugees
Conflict
Temperature affects human migration, new research shows
Women carry baskets of banana as they walk past a military personnel patrolling in Uganda's capital Kampala, Feb. 19, 2016.
Development
Amid drought and pests, can GMOs save Uganda’s farmers?
Tractor farming in India
Environment
Global warming threatens nutrition levels in staple crops
Farming in PA
Environment
Wild swings in the weather mean that some farm crops will flourish, while others struggle
Wild horses.
Environment
The trouble with managing America’s wild horses
chickens
Science
Journalist Maryn McKenna on the rise of ‘Big Chicken’ — and our current antibiotic crisis
North Dakota leads the nation in the production of several crops including: barley, canola, spring wheat, and honey. A low population state, farmers there rely heavily on exports.
Economics
Trump says we’re losing badly with trade. But North Dakota suggests otherwise.
Jersey cows.
Food
Some farmers are rotating livestock, not just crops, to protect the land
coffea arabica.
Food
Climate change is coming to your coffee cup
An employee prepares a scoop of ice cream at the Miko Carte d'Or, part of the Unilever group, factory in Saint-Dizier, France, May 4, 2016.
Economics
A cyclone in Madagascar could mean you’ll pay more for ice cream this summer
No-till farming.
Food
Another way to grow crops — by laying down the plow
Spraying pesticides
Health
Three major pesticides are likely to harm nearly all US endangered species
'Age of Acceleration'
Books
A new book explores how to survive the ‘Age of Accelerations’
Raspberries
Environment
Some advice for starting your own backyard ‘carbon farm’
Environment
The future of food — feeding the planet as the climate changes
Cary Fowler
Environment
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves the world’s agricultural heritage
A screwworm fly larva.
Science
Screwworm is back — and it’s bad news for Florida’s endangered deer
Holstein cows
Health
Scientists develop a hornless Holstein using ‘gene editing.’ Are you ready to eat it?
A farm worker in California's Central Valley picks fruit by hand. An estimated 98 percent of California farm workers are foreign born, the majority of them unauthorized.
Economics
Farmers continue to wait (and wait) for relief on immigration reform
Comfort Farms
Health
How working the land is helping US war veterans heal
The United Nations General Assembly hall in New York, April 2016.
Economics
The UN just took on antibiotic resistance, but can diplomacy help us combat disease?
Woman on street holds sign showing farmworkers marching in black and white photo
Justice
50 years later, protesters re-enact a farmworker strike that is scarcely mentioned in the history books