In R&D and large-scale corporate applications, China's smart agriculture has entered a phase of deep integration. Unmanned farms, smart ranches, and industrialized breeding complexes are emerging ...

New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, common waterhemp, into a problematic agricultural weed. An international team led by ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.10 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.10 Copy URL Fertilizer-intensive agriculture has been integral to ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts. Understanding the forces that initially drove the emergence of states across the world ...

Pollinators in the tropics are less likely to thrive in intensive croplands, finds a new study suggesting bees and butterflies are at risk of major losses. Pollinators in the tropics are less likely ...

Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, not just emissions of greenhouse gases, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study reveals how ...

Soil nitrogen mineralization (N min) is a key process that converts organic N into mineral N that controls soil N availability to plants. However, regional assessments of soil N min in cropland and ...

LONDON/BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A group of global investors representing more than $3.5 trillion in assets has urged the European Commission not to allow intensive farming to be badged as a ...

According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...