Agriculture – Page 22

Phosphate fertilizer ‘crisis’ threatens world food supply

Phosphate is an essential mineral for all life on Earth and is added to farmers’ fields in huge quantities. But rock phosphate is a finite … Phosphate fertilizer ‘crisis’ threatens world food supplyRead more

News / Soil

Soil erosion reduces the productivity of ecosystems, it changes nutrient cycles and it thus directly impacts climate and society. An international team of researchers, including … Human activities boosted global soil erosion 4,000 years agoRead more

The Earth is living, and also creates life. Over 4 billion years the Earth has evolved a rich biodiversity — an abundance of different living … We Need Biodiversity-Based Agriculture to Solve the Climate CrisisRead more

A new peer-reviewed study shows an explosion in the toxicity of U.S. agriculture for insects over the past 25 years since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced. … U.S. agriculture 48 times more toxic to insects than 25 years agoRead more

Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in 2018, according to an international study led by Nanyang Technological … Rice irrigation worsened landslides in deadliest earthquake of 2018 in IndonesiaRead more

A provocative new study looks at the resource utilization and technological strategies that would be needed to make a Mars population of one million people … Could we feed one million people living on Mars?Read more

Organic / ToMl

It was 1975 and Geoff Lawton was wintering with friends in Morocco. Camping on beaches north of Agadir, they’d been surfing for weeks when locals … The Moroccan Food Forest That Inspired an Agricultural RevolutionRead more

About 40% of the claims, totalling Rs. 12, 867 crore, under the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) scheme for the Kharif season which … 40% Insurance Claims for Kharif Season UnpaidRead more

transforms a food desert into a “Garden of Eden,” Urban farm takes root in Irvine’s Great Park in Southern California

GMO / India / News

Despite being repeatedly apprised of illegal cultivation of Bt brinjal in Haryana, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has not taken any action against the seed … Activists slam regulatory body for inaction against illegal Bt Brinjal cultivationRead more