An Italian think tank has defended the palm oil industry against accusations that it degrades the environment, saying it uses land more efficiently than do industries producing...
As haze blanketed large tracts of Southeast Asia last month, office workers with Genting Plantations Bhd. in Jakarta were investigating the source of the choking smoke more...
By the end of this week, Bangladesh’s agriculture minister is expected to announce the approval of “golden rice" for sale and use, making the country the world’s...
Golden Rice is back in the news. The Philippines and Bangladesh are moving closer towards commercialization of the GMO food crop to combat vitamin A deficiency, a...
In September last year the Indonesian government issued a presidential instruction to place a temporary ban on new permits for palm plantations for three years in a...
Britain's countryside will be transformed by policies to combat climate change, the government's former chief environment scientist says. Professor Sir Ian Boyd said climate policies after Brexit...
Uganda’s long-running debate over how to handle the cultivation of GMOs hit another obstacle with the president’s recent refusal to sign a measure passed by the nation’s...
Humans have farmed for thousands of years, but do we have any idea what we’re doing? Maybe not, said David Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of AeroFarms, the...
APUÍ, Brazil — A vigorous and incredibly lucrative trade in land for livestock is fueling the fires that have devastated that Amazon and caused an international outcry....
In 2016, the Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen flew over the Amazon forest with the head of Greenpeace Brazil as part of a National Geographic series called “Years...