Agriculture News

By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:12 AM ET

The world's woman grow over half the food but own only 2 percent of the land. The Rural Development Institute's new center aims to fix that. Read More

More like this in: Clinton Global Initiative, Africa, India, China, Poverty, United Nations, Asia, Farming, Women, Farmers, Sub-Saharan Africa

By Jac Chebatoris | Fri Nov 6, 2009 2:59 PM ET

The Internet's great for recipes, but there's nothing like a real cookbook to turn to when you get to cooking. Read More

More like this in: The New York Times, Cooking, New Orleans, Amazon, Recipes, Festivals, Kitchens

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 2, 2009 8:21 PM ET

A US Department of Agriculture grant will help Holistic Management International train first-time women farmers in the Northeast. Read More

More like this in: New York, Farmers, Texas, Farming, Teaching, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Maine, USDA

By David Bois | Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:00 PM ET

There's still more to do, but we've made terrific gains and improvements in conservation and water efficiency, according to the US Geological Survey. Read More

More like this in: Water, Conservation, U.S. Geological Survey

By Kendall Hunter | Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:57 PM ET

A blind German woman is helping numerous blind outcasts in Tibet become accepted as valuable members of society. Read More

More like this in: Children, The New York Times, Travel, India, Farmers, Germany, Tibet

By Courtney Rubin | Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:03 PM ET

Florida culinary students set world record for largest serving of guacamole. Read More

More like this in: California, Schools, Florida, Cooking, Tomatoes, The Miami Herald, Chefs

By Ben Corbett | Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:09 PM ET

While there's still much to be done to eradicate world hunger, there's also lots to celebrate. Here's the outlook. Read More

More like this in: United States, China, Farmers, Brazil, Italy, New Zealand, Vietnam, Ghana, Denmark, Ireland, Malawi

By David Bois | Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:00 PM ET

A global seed banking project at Kew Gardens marks 10 percent completion with the addition of a favorite snack of the Asian elephant. Read More

More like this in: Climate change, England, Asia, biodiversity

By Marc Hertz | Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:20 PM ET

Business takes to the sky to grow vegetables. Read More

More like this in: Greenhouse, Hydroponics, Aquaponics

By Ben Corbett | Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:30 PM ET

Getting communities hooked up to the information super-highway is looking as important today as the expansion of the American interstate highway during the Eisenhower years. Read More

More like this in: high-speed Internet