A new database of weeds that can help scientists understand how traditional agricultural systems were managed throughout history, could also provide insights into how global trends like the climate ...

As heat and water scarcity increase, farmers have to adjust their strategies to ensure good production. The bottom line is important, but so is conserving non-renewable resources. Dry farming is one ...

The authors examined "three independent domestication events" — the precise, often long-term process by which a species ...

A new study revealing that huge expansions of extensive large-scale agriculture is making the South American plains more vulnerable to widespread flooding should act as a “wake-up call”, say ...

New database of 928 species of weeds from Universities of Sheffield and Oxford published to provide free, global resource for plant ecologists and archaeologists The data changes our understanding of ...