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A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.

Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation...

6,700 years ago the ancient Peruvians were eating popcorn – 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a study by the Museum of Natural History in Washington, USA.

The analysis revealed that ears found in Paredones...

In December, Ms. Marie Haga penned an editorial in Panorama Magazine in Italy. Below is the English translation.

For centuries Italian cuisine has played a powerful role in shaping our eating habits, not just in the Apennine...

This year your strawberries could be as white as the cream poured over them, after a new variety went on sale today.

The pineberry is said to combine the shape and texture of a strawberry with a flavour and smell closer to that...

Sometimes you can find the most telling information in a newspaper not in the articles, but in the ads. A supermarket circular in the South Pacific tells its own story:

Mackerel in oil, $3.

30; 4 pound can of corned beef, $3.75;

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At least 1,000 hectares of banana farms in Southern Mindanao have been destroyed so far by Fusarium, a disease with no known cure that organic farming advocates said was aggravated by the practice of monocropping in the region. ...

The line of cars was so thick that Hill County farmer Rodney Schronk couldn’t get into his field of sunflowers. Hordes of rubber-neckers stopped along Interstate 35W near Hillsboro were taking photographs and walking through...

Yet again, citizens of the region of Mahi yesterday celebrated the Feast of Yams. It was held at the Royal Palace of Savalon in the presence of a huge crowd and a group of dignitaries.

On the special day, King Tossoh Gbaguidi...

When a pair of reporters traveled to the Nigerian town of Ofada looking for its famously delicious local rice, they were surprised to find no rice at all.

Onabiyi’s mood took a downward turn when he was asked what had happened to...