Guardian Professional,20 Oct 2014:
A San-Francisco based fund aims to target conventional farms and make them sustainable while providing high returns to investors. Can it work?
Guardian Professional,20 Oct 2014:
The paradox of uncultivated land and hunger can be reversed, says the head of Malawi’s smallholder farmers’ association Dyborn Chibonga
Guardian Professional,17 Oct 2014:
It’s a buzzword beloved by corporations but there is nothing to ensure “climate-smart” means good for the environment, writes Teresa Anderson
Guardian Professional,10 Oct 2014:
Water stressed China faces a dilemma between safeguarding food production and releasing water to a thirsty population, can new technology and policy reforms help?
9 Oct 2014:
German farmer has put a nappy on his cow to protest at an EU directive banning fertilisers on hills with a gradient of more than 15%, saying it will prevent him grazing his cattle
7 Oct 2014: Letters: The reason the Holstein-Friesian is the main cow used in milk production is that it produces the greatest volume – but its milk has the lowest content of butter fat
30 Sep 2014:
Farmers given radical advice following a drought warning by scientists using a computer data tool that reaped a UN reward. Diana Cariboni reports
26 Sep 2014:
Live-stock rustling is on the rise – 90,000 animals were stolen from British farms last year alone. Who is taking them, and why? Emine Saner investigates
25 Sep 2014:
With nearly 3 billion people already facing water scarcity, farmers look to both tech and tradition for ways to grow more food with less of an increasingly strained resource
Guardian Professional,25 Sep 2014:
Forget the green revolution, Chad’s farmers will need help to just grow enough to eat, let alone supply the market, writes Gene Fifer