A move from cattle herding to camel keeping among Kenyan farmers is more than an economic transition, it represents a fundamental shift in age-old...
University inventors and entrepreneurs whose research has applications in the food and consumer goods sectors will have the opportunity to...
With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...
A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world’s food...
A YouGov Cambridge poll has revealed widespread affection for agriculture, even though there is a surprising level of ignorance about the sector and...
A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help...
Conservation scientists working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers are building practical tools for real-world conservation.
Newly discovered family of genes could help us breed grasses with improved properties for food and fuel.
Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...
Veterinary research in Cambridge is spearheading a new generation of preventive methods to protect livestock from disease.
An online tool will help users predict trade-offs between the global commodities of energy, water and land.
A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...
