Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. Climate change is wreaking havoc on agriculture worldwide, posing a significant threat to the global food supply. Key crops ...

Agriculture in the 21st century faces multiple challenges: an increased demand for food due to a growing population and changing diets, a levelling off of crop yields, and dwindling natural resources ...

For decades, the public policies and big corporations that shape our food and agricultural system have pressed farmers ... and droughts—a vulnerability that will only worsen as climate change impacts ...

Many of the nation’s biggest apple-generating regions are confronting challenges in crop growth and development, due to the ...

These crops aim to achieve high yields under normal conditions while maintaining stability under heat stress. However, ...

Agriculture produces a substantial amount of greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute greatly to global warming and climate change. Stable and radioisotopes can be used to develop technology ...

Farmers are receiving less of what consumers spend on food, as modern food systems increasingly direct costs toward value-added components like processing, transport, and marketing. A study shows that ...

"Studies have shown that Indigenous agricultural and conservation practices are a key way to produce local climate adaptation ...

Read more about this project in a note from Eliza Barclay, Opinion’s climate editor ... a South America worth of wilderness. Agriculture didn’t change much until the 1960s, when the ...