Sure, it might be cruel, but intensive farming saves lives
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Comment is free: Jay Rayner: It's easy for some of us to buy free-range, but the lauding of farmers' markets ignores those for whom cheap food is essential
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.
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A strain of avian influenza among pigs was found at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus a step closer to becoming a deadly problem for people.
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It's a tough world, all right. Too bad it's not tougher. Right now Earth is looking pretty fragile as it suffers from increasing human punishment.
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By BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - Bob Rawlins raises his cattle and cultivates his crops far away from where a battle over the state's water supply could break out next year, but he knows the fallout could affect him and fellow farmers far into the future.
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Marooned amid rising waters, many residents refused to leave their livestock, one of the most valuable assets in a country heavily dependent on agriculture.
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Increased survival sounds like great news. But it may not mean what you think.
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A new strain of rice may be able to resist floods that destroy vast tracts of paddy fields in Bangladesh each year, offering hope to millions of poor farmers, researchers say.
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Poor farmersâ simple methods have helped lead to millions of newly tree-covered acres in a dust-choked region.
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Treating high blood pressure would  save lives and pay for itself, experts said on Tuesday.
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From fast-food chains to Congress, moves are afoot to reduce animal suffering and ensure food safety
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TO Zeng Shaotang, a farmer from South China&#39;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the medical bills he has to pay feels like a mountain on his shoulders.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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A "fat tax" on salty, sugary and fatty foods could save thousands of lives each year, according to a study published on Thursday.
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Wild pigs are destroying farmland and forest. Controlling them is becoming serious business.
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Americans know a good deal when they see it. Today a group of  leading scientists and practitioners from several fields -- agriculture,  medicine, economics, education, engineering -- is making a proposal to  the world. If  rich and poor countries will follow through on the promises  they have made over the past five years  to fight extreme poverty and disease -- and rely on the best science and technology in doing  so -- the world can save millions of lives and extricate hundreds of millions of  its poorest people from the trap of extreme poverty. The cost is a mere 50 cents out of every $100 of rich-world income in the coming decade.