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Agriculture & Environment: Farming practices

Editorials

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Farming, Mali

Let's learn from past efforts to fight hunger

Campaigners for food security must include science in their goals — and in return scientists need to heed wider concerns around solutions.

10 January 2013 | EN | ES

Agriculture experts use an app for mobile devices

Technical creativity needs nurturing at the grassroots

Efforts to promote sustainable development must tap into technologies developed locally, driven by community needs and priorities.

2 May 2012 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Biotech lab

The GM debate is about more than biosafety

Biosafety is important, but so is ensuring that GM crops benefit the rural poor and that decisions are based on sound science.

28 April 2011 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Farmer holding pomegranate

Research alone won't drive agricultural development

Even focused research will not deliver agricultural progress unless donors also help join up links in the development chain.

9 April 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Long-term solutions needed to feed the world's poor

More agricultural research funding and a farmer-centred approach to boosting food production are needed to prevent future food emergencies.

17 April 2009 | EN | 中文

Rice farmer in Bangladesh

S&T has vital role in sustainable farming

A recent report is a welcome analysis of modern agriculture's future, but it fails to adequately recognise the role of science and technology.

18 April 2008 | EN | ES | 中文