Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
Twelve thousand years ago everybody lived as hunters and gatherers. But by 5,000 years ago most people lived as farmers.
Archaeology
Oct 18, 2017
2
74
News tagged with farmers
Study finds local food movement rooted in relationships and values
More Americans than ever before are supporting their local food markets, and it's not just because they believe the food is fresher and tastes better.
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2015
0
159
How digital technologies can help Africa's smallholder farmers
digitization could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That's a key message in a report recently released by an international institution that enhances smallholder farming in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Business
Jul 12, 2019
0
1
A federal origin of Stone Age farming
The transition from hunter-gatherer to sedentary farming 10,000 years ago occurred in multiple neighbouring but genetically distinct populations according to research by an international team including UCL.
Archaeology
Jul 14, 2016
4
32
Researcher examines Atacama Desert farm fields abandoned 500 years ago
High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small neatly laid out fields, terraced and lined with rocks. No crops are growing there ...
Environment
Mar 26, 2015
2
22
Research examines whether AI is helping small-scale farming operations
Artificial intelligence tools can be found in nearly every sector of society and are quickly becoming this century's great technological advancement. In the agriculture sector, large-scale farming operations are utilizing ...
Biotechnology
Jun 12, 2023
0
19
Possible new ways to continue growing coffee in a changing climate
A team of authors from Uganda and the U.K. with backgrounds in botany, agriculture and the coffee industry has published an article in the journal Nature Plants, pointing out that that the world's coffee growers may soon ...
Regenerative grazing improves soil health and plant biodiversity
Regenerative practices improve soil quality and pasture diversity, as the European LIFE Regen Farming project, due to end this year, has shown. The last few decades have seen the gradual abandoning of grazing practices in ...
Environment
Nov 28, 2016
0
26
Early farmers exploited beehive products at least 8,500 years ago
Humans have been exploiting bees as far back as the Stone Age, according to new research from the University of Bristol published in Nature today.
Archaeology
Nov 11, 2015
14
2126
Researchers develop a way to control 'superweed'
They pop up in farm fields across 22 states, and they've been called the single largest threat to production agriculture that farmers have ever seen. They are "superweeds" – undesirable plants that can tolerate multiple ...
Ecology
Jan 21, 2011
14
0
