the Republican senator from Nebraska, covered only half the risk last week when he said President Donald Trump’s escalating trade conflict with China threatened “to light American agriculture on fire.”

Trump’s […]

Fungal disease is a common threat experienced by farmers in raising vegetables and other leafy plants. According to just4growers.com, an agri-solution platform, some of the common fungal diseases that affect […]

With production values totaling US$59.7 million in 2016, maple is big business in the state of Vermont. In spite of its population of about 623,000 people, Vermont is the largest producer of syrup in the Uni […]

The GREEN Foundation is working to slow the rate of farmer suicides in India and improve conditions for farmers—especially women—whose traditional agricultural methods were stripped away by the Green Revo […]

On April 3-5, 2018, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will convene the Second International Symposium on Agroecology. The Symposium, titled “Scaling up Agroecology to Achieve the Sustainable Devel […]

Raised on a farm and deeply concerned about farmland preservation, Suzanna Denison connects landless, aspiring farmers with landowners through her work as the director of Western North Carolina FarmLink. In a […]

Dr. Kristine Nichols was the Chief Scientist at the Rodale Institute, an independent research institute for organic farming, from 2014 to 2017. Her training and research focus on the microbes living in soil and […]

Millets and sorghum are grains that are nutrient-rich, drought-tolerant crops and can support communities around the world. The International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) estimates […]

Food rescue and recovery efforts seem like a common sense solution to help prevent food waste. Why, then, is it not the norm for restaurants to donate excess food to the hungry at the end of each day?

While the […]

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Dr George Nyombaire, the Head of Research and Development Coordination Department at NIRDA.

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An exhibitor at the food […]

With concerns about antibiotics resistance growing by the day, the experience of a father, Moses Murandu and laboratory studies suggest that something cheaper and available around us could help heal wounds […]

Residents and local authorities in the districts of Gakenke and Kamonyi have mounted a search for two men who are feared to have drowned in River Nyabarongo.

River Nyabarongo tends to overflow during rainy […]

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA) spent about USD 50 million to support agricultural projects in Angola.
This is part of an agreement signed between Angola and FIDA in Rome (Italy) in 2 […]

Uganda’s State Minister for Regional Cooperation, Philemon Mateke (L), and Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Uganda Frank Mugambage (R), lead mourners in a candle lighting session during the 24th commemoration of the […]