Ojo's ambitions are straightforward -- increase Nigerian yam and cassava yields by 500 percent, fight hunger and raise her ...

Even a casual reading of history shows that under the right circumstances any one, or any combination, of political turmoil, climatic extremes, or resource abuse can bring down a society. Alarmingly, ...

Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence may either free us from monotonous labour and unleash huge productivity gains, or create a dystopia of mass unemployment and automated ...

An agricultural revolution is gearing up as a technological explosion is starting to energize nearly all facets of farming. Today, robots—aka agbots, agribots and farmbots—are taking on many farm ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution, humans have built and designed new inventions ...

The chancellor emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis stressed the need for a fourth agricultural revolution, or an "evergreen revolution" where science and "sensible public policy" combine.

For almost all of Homo sapiens' estimated 200,000-year history, our species lived as hunter-gatherers, uprooting wild plants, gathering wild nuts, picking wild fruit, and hunting wild game. And life ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A tiller of the soil in biblical times could have visited a farm in 1900 and felt right at home with the tools in the barn. If he moved his visit forward 100 years the ancient ...

As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges that threaten the dietary needs of humans and livestock. A pair ...

Near Bowling Green, Ohio, 800 ugly-tempered farmers last week assembled at Wallace Kramp’s place to watch a finance company foreclose its $800 mortgage. Bidding began at 15¢ for a spring harrow. When ...