Producers in Zambia should be getting more for their crops, and buyers in East Africa should be paying less, alleviating food price spikes.
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Monitoring and enforcing competition rules is essential to level the playing field for fairer food markets.
A new study finds that by 2030, less than one-third of the world’s major crop harvests will go directly to feed people.
Studies suggest that seeds coated with neonicotinoid insecticides may harm nontarget insects, mammals and birds. In response, states are starting to restrict use of these products.
Farmers are stuck in a chemical war against weeds, which have developed resistance to many widely used herbicides. Seed companies’ answer – using more varied herbicides – is causing new problems.
There’s a new label on many US food products – here’s what it means and who pushed to add it.
The US has required motor fuels to contain 10% biofuels since 2005. As this program nears a key milestone in 2022, farm advocates want to expand it while critics want to pare it back or repeal it.
Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in Southern and Eastern Africa, which are at the heart of inclusive food value chains, are not receiving fair prices for their produce.
Because Brazil’s economic prosperity in the last two decades is increasingly linked to the Amazon’s good health, restoring the country’s economy is a critical first step toward ending deforestation.
American farmers have suffered the most as a result of China’s retaliatory tariffs yet surveys show they still back the president and his trade war.
Farmers worldwide say Monsanto’s policy of charging for every use of its genetically modified seeds violates their planting rights. But judges in these patent law cases aren’t so sure.
The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns, yields of some crops are increasing while others decline. The net result: less food, especially where it’s most needed.
China has reportedly halted all purchases of US soybeans. Here’s why that’s going to be very painful for American farmers.
Soybean cultivation for animal feed is destroying rainforests across the world. Microalgae may be the Amazon’s closest ally.
The Impossible Burger contains an ingredient made by genetically modified yeast. So is this new veggie burger organic? Vegan? A GM product?
Many of the crop plants that feed us waste 20 percent of their energy, especially in hot weather. Plant geneticists prove that capturing this energy could boost crop yields by up to 40 percent.
The Trump administration’s promise of $12 billion in aid to offset losses from retaliatory tariffs will not make up for the long-term consequences of a prolonged trade war.
An AC/DC-loving biologist tests the band’s 1980 assertion that “rock ‘n’ roll ain’t noise pollution.” Turns out it can be – and the negative effects of noise can ripple through an ecosystem.
US farmers are planting more and more acres with seeds coated with neonicotinoid pesticides. An ecologist explains why this approach is overkill and may be doing more harm than good.
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Professor of Economics and Lead Researcher, Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, UJ, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Scientist, University of Minnesota
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Chair in Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Entomology and Extension Specialist, Penn State
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Researcher at Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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Economist at Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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Research Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
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Research Affiliate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risks, University of Cambridge
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Assistant professor, Louisiana State University
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Colorado State University
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Lecturer, University of Essex
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Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
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