In the past, all the household trash was placed in a compound, where it would, after some time, rot and serve as fertilizer.

These methods are also energy intensive ... “Everybody needs energy—every farm, food production plant, and transportation vehicle depend on it,” Oliver said. “This could really impact people. This ...

Intensive animal farming may increase the risk of future pandemics, a new study has found. The findings go against the conventional wisdom that industrialized farming reduces the risk of disease ...

Across the Southern Amazon, intensive agriculture predominates on landscapes ... of soybeans on pastureland within the Amazon biome, a process underway in Northern Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Eastern ...

Soil health hinges more on how agricultural land is managed than whether the farming system is organic or conventional, according to a new study showing that farms with more intensive management ...

But the process of growing food in cities doesn ... tomatoes start life in the greenhouse—a resource- and energy-intensive farming method. And a few other highly perishable crops that need ...

Surprisingly, it applies to both conventional and organic farming. The less intensively ... now working at the Universität Tübingen. 'More intensive soil management leads to reduction of soil ...