WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Productivity-boosting agricultural innovations in Africa could lead to an increase in global deforestation rates and carbon emissions, a Purdue University study finds.

An agricultural revolution is gearing up as a technological explosion is starting to energize nearly all facets of farming. Today, robots—aka agbots, agribots and farmbots—are taking on many farm ...

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Niger State, Nigeria’s largest state by landmass, is a region blessed with immense natural and agricultural resources. With over 76,000 square kilometres of land, of which 85 percent is arable, and ...

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Co-Founder and CTO of Prospera Technologies, leading the company’s vision to transform the way food is grown using data science and AI. The human race has come a long way in our ability to produce ...

On the land where the U.S. grows its food and fiber, the majestic checkerboard of spring was beginning to form. The plains and rolling hills of Illinois and Iowa, where farmers were turning the soil ...

As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges that threaten the dietary needs of humans and livestock. A pair ...

Near Bowling Green, Ohio, 800 ugly-tempered farmers last week assembled at Wallace Kramp’s place to watch a finance company foreclose its $800 mortgage. Bidding began at 15¢ for a spring harrow. When ...

Productivity-boosting agricultural innovations in Africa could lead to an increase in global deforestation rates and carbon emissions, a study finds. "Increasing productivity in Africa -- a ...