Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...

More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research. Livestock ...

Chinese scientists have developed a cost-effective method of converting coal into protein, which they say could feed livestock much more efficiently than natural plants, while using a tiny fraction of ...

Dutch livestock farmers are increasingly outraged and bewildered over a court ruling that has begun to force thousands of them out of the business—by design. In 2019, the High Council of the ...

It is no secret that drones are starting to take over our fields, with these small UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) bringing a plethora of benefits in agriculture. But they can be useful for so much ...

Say “Sonoma County farm,” and most people will conjure an image of docile cows chewing cud or chickens scratching the dirt, idly whiling away their days among the grassy, green hills of this mostly ...

For Damilare Babatope, an Ogun-based agro entrepreneur, involvement in farming has been a mixed bag, with the attendant opportunities and challenges associated with the value chain. However, he has ...

This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. Josh Payne planted chestnut trees six years ago. The rows of nut trees haven’t ...

More people are flocking to Laikipia, seeking to tap into new opportunities in horticulture and livestock rearing. For years, investors avoided the region, located on the leeward side of Mt Kenya, due ...