WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Productivity-boosting agricultural innovations in Africa could lead to an increase in global deforestation rates and carbon emissions, a Purdue University study finds.

Why did the European Food Safety Authority claim that glyphosate was not ecotoxic? This is the question environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason poses in her new 23-page report which can be accessed in full ...

The recent boom in production of ethanol from corn grain has tightly linked the agriculture and energy sectors in an unprecedented fashion. Researchers have now developed a model, based on a range of ...

Figure 1: Changing world population, land area of major crops, annual crop production and changes in crop GPP seasonal cycle. It is generally known that land-use activities such as deforestation and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting from Europe, Jeff McMahon covers the environment. The first three agricultural revolutions allowed the human population ...

Agriculture has undergone a “green revolution” over the past 50 years, with more and more crops being produced from an acre of land than ever before. That agricultural revolution could be changing ...

Virginia Tech students and professors gathered to hear Glenn Davis Stone, a professor at Washington and Lee University, give a lecture on agricultural theories and practices earlier this month. Stone ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution, humans have built and designed new inventions ...

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current ...

Humans' adoption of agriculture in Mesopotamia around 12,000 years ago led to a large increase in birth rates for those who practiced it. We can possibly see this increase in fertility as ...