Increases in global grain production are mostly due to changes in agricultural technologies and an increase in cultivated land area, experts said.

The Earth is heating up. The effects of human-caused global climate change are becoming more and more apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, shifts in rainfall patterns ...

Climate change feels like a faraway problem, but it’s already here. A substantial part of our increasing food prices has ...

A crack in the dry ground is seen Oct. 5 as corn plants dry in the sun and wind on farm land north of The Eastern Iowa Airport in southwest Cedar Rapids. This is the third year of drought in Iowa, and ...

(Bloomberg) -- In Kansas, where a prolonged drought has killed crops and eroded the soil, Gail Fuller’s farm is like an oasis. Sheep, cows and chickens graze freely on crops and vegetation in a ...

Our World in Data (OWID) ran a series of articles by Hannah Ritchie exploring the impact of climate change on crop production. On balance, the stories get the facts straight, pointing out yields of ...

The Government and relevant stakeholders need to approach the challenges as opportunities that actually fuel innovation and sustainable growth ...

Agriculture is at a crossroads. All over the world, weather patterns are affecting yields of key crops, pushing up prices and impacting food security. We are, in other words, in the middle of a ...

“Rising temperature increases heat stress on the poultry,” says Coleman. “From a supply perspective, that could slow down ...

Protesters gathered outside a new space at the talks, the industry-sponsored “Agrizone,” to call for a transition toward a more grassroots food system, even as hundreds of lobbyists for big ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned that prolonged droughts and increasing dust storms are causing severe land degradation across Afghanistan, making it one of the world’s most ...