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Turning Wetlands Into Farmland May Be Doing More Harm Than Good
For decades, converting wetlands into farmland has seemed like a practical way to produce more food. Drain the water, prepare the soil and turn the…
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Scientists Turn Discarded Date Seeds Into a New Energy Storage Material
The next breakthrough in energy storage might come from something we normally throw into the dustbin. Researchers in Egypt have developed a method to transform…
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Plants May Be Able to Call Helpful Microbes for Backup
A plant cannot walk away from a disease. It cannot move to healthier soil, escape a pathogen or choose a better neighbourhood. But new research…
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AI Is Still Struggling to See the Tiny Details Inside Plants
Artificial intelligence can recognise faces, read documents and analyse satellite images. But put an AI model in front of a microscope and ask it to…
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Could an Invisible Edible Shield Help Crops Survive Drought?
A Swiss agritech company has developed a technology that sounds almost too simple to be agricultural innovation. Spray a plant with an edible coating, and…
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Plants Are Being Given a New Kind of Biological “Signal” to Grow Better
What if farmers could improve crop performance without changing the plant’s genes, adding new machinery or completely changing the way they farm? A new technology…
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A Solar Powered Robot Could Change How Farmers Plant Seeds
A small agricultural robot has just demonstrated something that could become increasingly important as farms look for ways to reduce fuel use without sacrificing precision.…
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Can Regenerative Farming Make Tropical Fruit Supply Chains More Resilient?
Bananas and pineapples may look like simple products on supermarket shelves, but producing them at scale is becoming increasingly difficult. Heat, extreme weather, water stress,…
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Tiny Insects Could Help Farmers Grow More Food While Building Healthier Soils
A farming experiment in western Kenya has produced an interesting result: combining crop diversification with fertilizer made from insect waste can increase farm productivity, improve…
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New Zealand Is Teaching Cameras to See Inside Apples Without Cutting Them Open
A bruised or overripe apple can look perfectly healthy from the outside. That creates a costly problem for growers and exporters. Fruit can spend weeks…
