For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on a smaller scale, to modern farming systems. Research has shown that some ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2: Zero Hunger. This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Farming systems approach to climate adaptation.

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garcés has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met ...

Broad national coalition supports new legislation to build a more resilient and just food system “The factory farm agricultural model, which dominates our country’s food system, fuels toxic air and ...

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...

Many of us mindlessly shop for food, fuel, clothing, home goods and more without thinking much about where it all comes from, forgetting that in most cases it all started on a farm. Most people are ...

A dehesa system yields animal products, cork from oak trees, plants from the understory, and more. Learn about the crop-livestock integrated farming systems small farmers across the globe are ...