With the onset of climate change and changes in irrigation, adapting food crops to grow in diverse environments could help feed the world. Now University of California, Davis, scientists are leading a ...

Globally, an over-reliance on a few staple crops, namely maize, wheat and rice, has resulted in limited dietary diversity— causing malnutrition, environmental degradation and health crises.

Faulty seeds and an early monsoon season rain on its yield expectation as the crop struggles with compounding challenges.

There may be another food security crisis in the country due to the rising cost of fertiliser.Farmers and their associations, who spoke to Daily Trust, said the cost of fertilisers is not within their ...

Nigeria's food security threatened by soaring fertiliser prices. Farmers abandon major crops like maize, rice due to high ...

The top 10 global crops — barley, cassava, maize/corn, palm oil, rapeseed/canola, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugar cane, and wheat — account for over 80% of all harvested crop calories. Those crops are ...

Wheat, soy and maize — high value crops for a lot of the world — will be especially badly affected, the study found. If humans keep burning large amounts of fossil fuels, maize production ...

Farmers say GMO maize will push them into "seed slavery" Government says GMO crops will help to boost food security Touts yield-boosting, pest-resistant properties Worst drought in four decades ...

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, a professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis, has been awarded the prestigious National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and ...

Rice used 29 percent of the groundwater intended for international food crops, topping the study’s list, followed by wheat (12 percent), cotton (11 percent), maize (4 percent) and soybeans (3 ...