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December 10, 2025 – The Trump administration will direct $700 million into a voluntary regenerative agriculture pilot program that builds on existing conservation programs, top health and agriculture officials announced Wednesday. The funds will be split between existing conservation programs under ...
Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By tweaking only two amino acids, they converted a defensive receptor into one that supports symbiosis. Early success in barley hints that cereals may eventually be engineered to f...
Article Summary• Indigenous communities have tended and used elderberries as a sacred plant and medicine for centuries. Elderberries are traditionally shared within tribal communities, not commercialized. • Elderberries grow throughout the U.S., but most are imported from Germany and Austria. Demand...
Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive oil to Rome...
Portable IRGA (infra-red gas analyser) for measuring photosynthesis in the field. Credit: Rothamsted Research For decades, boosting photosynthesis in crops has been viewed as a scientific holy grail. Yet photosynthesis does not operate in isolation: it is tightly interwoven with environmental factor...
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Home » Food Tank » Op-Ed | A Call for Our Survival: Defending Indigenous Fisherfolk Rights The Panamanian Indigenous Ngäbe Buglé Peoples and fishers have practiced ancestral fishing in the provinces of Veraguas, Bocas del Toro,...
Regen Sydney is working to build a regenerative future in Australia by connecting communities through food, storytelling, and conversation. Through their storytelling series, the organization is bringing together food system actors to reframe food as a shared source of connection and agency. “We use...
Across rural India, cow dung has always been a quiet hero — a humble, everyday material transformed into fuel, fertiliser, building aid, and even a natural disinfectant. While most urban gardeners know it only as a neatly packaged manure bag, farmers have spent generations unlocking its full power, ...
Join Gastro Obscura's Sam O'Brien each week for Kitchen Dispatch as she tests new recipes and explores wondrous foods from her home kitchen. Subscribe to get it in the Gastro newsletter. As the weather got colder last week, I decided it was the perfect time to make pawpaw ice cream. It’s not that I ...
In Rajasthan’s Sirohi district, mornings begin early. By the time the sun stretches across the rocky fields, women have already finished milking, tied up their cattle, and begun walking towards the nearest collection point with steel cans balanced on their hips. Among them is Gokri Devi, a resident ...
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Researchers have discovered how plant roots penetrate compacted soil by deploying a well-known engineering principle. The finding could have major implications for future crop development at a time when pressure on agricultural land is increasing. Across the globe, soil compaction is becoming an eve...
The popular fungus-based meat mimic behind vegan products like Quorn has just received an upgrade: researchers have tweaked its genes to make this fungus produce vast amounts more protein, using considerably reduced resources. The newly-formulated fungus—aka mycoprotein—not only has a vastly smaller...
Around the world, people produce over six million tons of coffee grounds, according to the International Coffee Organization. While some of those grounds make their way to compost, most end up in landfills. Researchers in Australia have been finding ways to use coffee grounds to make concrete. And n...
