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India has the world’s largest rice-growing area, but more fertilizer does not necessarily mean better results. Nitrogen-use efficiency has fallen from nearly 50% to about 42%, increasing costs and env

Open-field burning is fast and convenient, but it causes air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. IRRI argues that farmers burn straw not simply by choice, but because of limited machinery, wet fie

Climate change is making farming increasingly unpredictable. In a recent interview with The Guardian Nigeria, Dr. Godwin Atser, Country Director of the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) in Nigeria, hi

Taiwan is strengthening agricultural resilience in response to increasing climate extremes, with Agriculture Minister Chen Junne-jih highlighting efforts in disaster early warning, water management, c

Agriculture in Yunlin is becoming smarter and more resilient. Since 2020, the Yunlin County Smart Agriculture University has helped farmers build skills in technology, branding, marketing, and sustain

In response to rising fertilizer and energy prices driven by the Middle East crisis, EU Member States have approved the European Commission’s €540 million emergency support package to help farmers cop

March 27, 2017 | Ecology Letters |Introduction: Human land use has already altered roughly 53% of Earth's terrestrial surface, and agricultural land is projected to expand a further 10% by 2030, i

June 20, 2022 | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability |Introduction: Grassland restoration research lacks landscape-scale studies, long-term monitoring of successional processes, and diverse native seed

June 27 2022 | Nature Sustainability |Introduction: Whether ecological intensification (EI) can maintain crop yields while reducing reliance on nitrogen fertilizer (NF) and tillage intensity (TI) has

February 2023 | Trends in Ecology & Evolution |Introduction: Pollination research has historically focused on bees and globally traded crops, leaving the contribution of non-bee pollinators and locall

March 9, 2025 | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture |Introduction: Declining natural pollinators due to climate change, habitat loss, and pesticide use threaten yields of pollination-dependent tr

May 22, 2026 | World Fertilizer |The fertilizer and farming sectors account for roughly 1.3% of global CO2 emissions, with ammonia production alone emitting an estimated 450 million tonnes annually, p