The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and The Organic Center have announced five awards totaling around $632,000 to advance organic farming. The awards fund much-needed training, technical ...

When consumers deliberate over organic versus conventional produce, the implicit assumption is almost always that organic is ...

There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...

Plants adapt genetically over time to the special conditions of organic farming. This has been demonstrated in a long-term study conducted at the University of Bonn. The researchers planted barley ...

The Rockefeller Foundation is among the investors to back a new fund, which aims to help U.S. farmers transition to regenerative organic agriculture methods. Perennial Fund II has been launched by the ...

Organic research and advocacy nonprofit The Organic Center has been awarded almost $900,000 through the USDA’s Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative program. The funds will enable The ...

The premium price of organic meat reflects its superior taste, which comes from natural, slow-growth farming practices.

At dawn in a village field, a farmer bends to the soil and runs it through his fingers. It is dark, soft, alive. There is no smell of chemicals, no white residue on the leaves. What grows here is not ...

Organic farming has gathered pace in the last few years, with 98.9 million hectares being managed organically across the world by the end of 2023, according to The Organic Research Centre. This was a ...

Organising Secretary Mahesh Melvin said the training was being conducted at his farm, Jezreel Biodynamic Farms, in Ooty, which has been operational for around 25 years.

The move to biological farming techniques has been underway for several years in response to Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical ...

ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR President, Dr Hussein Mwinyi, has pledged continued government investment in agriculture, including modern production technologies, irrigation, affordable financing and reliable ...