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Study Shows Shade from Solar Panels Benefits Agriculture Significantly

Farmers struggle to match production demands due to the progressively stressful climate. In other cases, producers of renewable energy struggle to deal with intense heat and weather.

30 Jul 2019

Partnering can Promote Sustainability in Agri-Food Supply Chains

Diverfarming, the European project established by the European Commission within its Horizon 2020 program, looks for environmental sustainability among low input management practices and crop diversification.

29 Jul 2019

New Wastewater Treatment Process Effectively Removes Environmental Hormones

The advanced environmentally-friendly, low-cost, and high-efficiency wastewater processing catalyst produced from agricultural by-product, together with the high efficiency and removal rate realized through the application of ultrasound stimulation, resulted in high expectation for the development of a new environmental hormone removal system.

22 Jul 2019

Common Dairy Cows Share Same Core Group of Genetically Inherited Microbiome

According to a new research, normal dairy cows share the same core collection of genetically inherited gut microbes, which affect factors like the amount of methane the animals liberate during digestion and how well they produce milk.

4 Jul 2019

Study: Agroforestry Overlooked in Global Climate Change Reporting Systems

Farmers plant trees into pastures and fields to make money out of wood or fruit, increase shade and fodder for livestock, protect against wind or water erosion, or improve soil health.

27 Jun 2019

CEA-Leti Announces Smart-Farm Project to Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Boost Farming Efficiency

Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, today announced a new European Commission smart-farming project that will deliver real-time data on soil conditions.

From CEA-Leti 13 Jun 2019

Researcher Offers a List of Recommendations to Develop a Bee-Friendly Landscape

Bees are vital constituents in the ecosystem: 75% of the most important food crops depend on pollinators to some extent.

8 Apr 2019

Researchers Discover an Effective and Safe Biopesticide to Ensure Environmental Sustainability

According to a research team from Cardiff University, in association with the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a strain of useful bacteria could be repurposed to produce a sustainable, safe, and natural substitute to synthetic chemical pesticides.

5 Mar 2019

Researchers Discover a Surprising New Source of Carbon Dioxide Emissions

In a new research from UBC’s Okanagan campus, scientists have found an unexpected new source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions—bicarbonates concealed in the lake water employed for irrigating local plantations.

22 Feb 2019

New Approach to the Selection of Crop Varieties Turns Farmers into Citizen Scientists

Under circumstances of fast-growing climate conditions, a new research by Bioversity International and associates deals with the challenge of climate adaptation in a manner that is scalable as well as targeted. Researchers show a distinctive method using crowdsourced citizen science that exploits farmers’ knowledge.

19 Feb 2019