(Beyond Pesticides, August 9, 2024) A study in the journal Biology and Fertility of Soils has confirmed once again that organic agriculture contributes significantly to soil health, improving ...
Our food system is increasingly dominated by intensive animal agriculture known as factory farms, which are designed to produce as much meat as possible, cheaply and quickly. Nearly all animals farmed ...
Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...
Industrial agriculture depends on monoculture—growing single crops that can be easily planted, fertilized, treated with pesticides, and harvested—especially on large-scale, mechanized farms. In spite ...
Civil society and farmer organisations have ‘serious concerns’ about the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology being considered for the upcoming sustainability labelling initiative.
Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) are leading more than 15 other organizations, farmers, and companies ...
The EU aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 – but has been investing four times as much money into carbon-intensive livestock farming than growing plants, research has found ...
Purdue University has received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to explore the ecology of organic cropping systems ...
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