Potassium deficiency in soil has been revealed as a major threat to livestock and agricultural farming. So what does this mean for global food security and can the current threat be reversed? A study ...

At the launch and commemoration of the 14th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS) Commemoration and 19th Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Partnership ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The challenge of ensuring future food security as populations grow and diets change has its roots in soil, but the increasing degradation of the earth's thin skin is threatening to ...

Interdisciplinary center digs into soil health research, efforts to create a more sustainable and climate-resilient food system Experts across the University of California San Diego have come together ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --Soils around the world are running low on potassium, a key nutrient needed for plants to grow. This ultimately means we may not be able to grow enough food for everyone. But it's not ...

Food security in a changing world is one of the great conundrums of our time. The combination of expanding populations, urban sprawl and climate degradation means the land suitable for food production ...

The European Commission has adopted a Soil Monitoring Law to improve food security and limit global warming. Its adoption has been well received, but doubts cast over the proposal’s level of ambition.

Small seedlings grow in the newly cultivated soil. Italy. Europe. (Photo by: Daniele Orsi/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) There is a rapidly accelerating global call to protect ...

China targets grain production capacity of 725 mln metric tons by 2030 Policy focus on raising per-unit crop yields as farmland expansion limited China bets on breakthrough crop varieties, soil ...

Solar grazing makes healthier soil on Northeastern solar projects, research from the American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA) found. The two-year study began in 2022 and aimed to examine the impacts ...