The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN...

Cuban farmers are going to farm on state-owned land as the government has moved to tackle food shortages amid mounting global food prices. According to a governmental decree issued on Friday, President Raul Castro has authorized putting...

Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the fast growing inflation. For that, more of farmlands are required to grow food...

The biggest challenge before modern man is perhaps the food crisis. The leaders of all the nations are concentrating on how to increase the production of food, so that no one should die just because of hunger. Even the government is encouraging...

Installing the world’s largest solar power plant is on the way - it is all happening in southern Portugal. U.S. energy companies GE Energy and PowerLight Corporation, and Portuguese renewable energy company Catavento have started building it....

True, developments of former farmlands are needed to improve the overall growth of farming quality. But, things will not be as environment friendly as thought. Such development can disturb pesticides spread nearly a century ago, hence landing...

A specimen of the giant Palouse earthworm is found. Graduate student, Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon of the University of Idaho is apparently the first person in nearly two decades to find the specimen. The rolling hills of the Palouse sprawl across...

GOOD GOLF GRIEF! Tourism, which sells luxury and indulgence, can be a profligate consumer of natural resources. Worldwide, 50 million people play golf. Each year, up to 5,000 hectares of the Earth’s land surface - an area the size of Paris...