Commercial organic and synthetic nitrogen fertilizer helps feed around half of the world’s population.

CABI’s expert scientists in the field of ecosystems management and invasion ecology have presented new guidance on ways to help protect the world’s trees and forests from harmful pests and diseases such as the box tree moth and ash dieback.

The current reform proposals of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are unlikely to improve environmental protection, say researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Göttingen in the journal Science. While the EU has committed to greater sustainability, this is not reflected in the CAP reform proposal. The authors show how the ongoing reform process could still accommodate conclusive scientific findings and public demand to address environmental challenges including climate change.

Stories of mass poisoning incidents of livestock due to toxic grasses made headlines especially overseas. 

An interdisciplinary research collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has engineered a novel synthetic plant-microbe signalling pathway that could provide the foundation for transferring nitrogen fixation to cereals.

Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop residue (stalks and roots of previous crops) before planting.

Imagine your favorite beach filled with thousands of ducks and gulls.

Soy production is a booming business in Brazil’s Cerrado region. 

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed portable technology that allows farmers to identify plant diseases in the field. 

Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate.