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 ...