Food security is a global challenge and it’s only getting more critical, says Irving Fain, founder and CEO of Bowery, the vertical farming company using hydroponics and digital agriculture to ...
More than just a ritual, Mattu Pongal is a celebration of coexistence. It reflects the belief that all living beings are ...
A few years back, the Internet was abuzz with the idea of vertical farms running down the sides of urban towers, with the idea that growing crops where they’re actually consumed could eliminate the ...
Industrial agriculture depends on monoculture—growing single crops that can be easily planted, fertilized, treated with pesticides, and harvested—especially on large-scale, mechanized farms. In spite ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Most observers agree upon the existence among traditional agriculturalists of a conservative attitude toward innovations and upon this ...
According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...
The world’s current agricultural practices are unsustainable, and indoor farming may offer solutions to some of these problems, argue many of the leaders in the space. The global population is ...
Opinion: Why traditional knowledge — not external tech — is the key to truly sustainable agriculture
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Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Chairman Timothy Rhodd (right) and two other members of the executive committee, Cheyenne Colborn (middle) and Tony Fee (left), show off a pear tree in the tribe's ...
The modern agriculture that is sometimes taken to be the "conventional" one is daily gaining ground over so-called traditional or extensive forms of farming practised for several thousand years by ...
The Taraba State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Professor Nicholas Oliver, has said unpredictable rainfall, ...
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