On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With concerns about food security on the rise, experts are asking: How will we feed everyone? Climate change, natural resource ...

No discussion of agriculture’s pioneers would be complete without Dr. Norman Borlaug, widely recognized as the “Father of the Green Revolution.” In the 1960s, Borlaug, an agronomist, led a team that ...

This article was written by Stacey Stearns, educational program administrator for UConn Extension, based in Storrs, Conn. Organic versus conventional agriculture. Industrial versus sustainable. GMO ...

Credit...Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York Times; source photographs by wwing, Fotoforce, Clara Bastian, DaydreamsGirl and Mercedes Rancaño Otero, via Getty ...

When we think about agriculture, we often focus on the end product: cotton for a t-shirt, hay destined to feed animals through the winter, or hamburgers for our summer barbecues. However, after we ...

Beef is far worse for greenhouse gas emissions compared with other meat. By Francesca Paris The companies also agreed to donate more than 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits in 17 states that ...

I used to teach high school science in Oklahoma, and one day I brought in a stalk from a cotton plant with bolls of cotton still attached. Students asked me why I glued cotton balls to a stick. My ...

I was honored a couple of weeks ago to be invited by Charlie Du, president of Columbia University Global Dialogue and founder of the World Salon series and website, to participate as a panelist on a ...