Small scale farming in Africa and Asia - that is, farming small plots of land of up to two hectares and typically much less - provides 80% of the food for the market places and households across these continents. And women produce 60-80% of the food in developing countries.

Healthy soil could be our best hope in the face of climate change, food crisis and biodiversity loss.

At this critical time when a new generation of Development Goals are being considered, agricultural development as a pathway to poverty and hunger reduction is understandably high on the political agenda.

In the industrialized west we need only a change in the way we think about food to reduce appreciably the waste.

The Prince of Wales has been asked to take a leading role in protecting his estate's workers from "attack", if the government's plan to abolish a boar...

The owners of a piggery will assess the damage today after a fire ripped through the building, killing up to 900 animals. Up to 50 firefighters tac...

Famers and vets have heralded the potential of a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease which scientists say could be the "holy grail" of preventi...

With rising populations creating more mouths to feed, newly affluent citizens in developing countries hungry for meat and other resource-intensive foods, growing global water stress and changes in climate, agricultural supply chains are facing unprecedented pressure.

Food is often in short supply. The availability of and access to food is also, and has always been, highly political.

Sainsbury's is the UK's third biggest supermarket chain and are primarily a food company - food accounts for over 70% of their sales. Yet they are keen to build over farmland at a time when people are increasingly concerned about how enough food will be produced for the growing populations of the future.

To the west of the country, the Sierra de Perijá, a stretch of both mountains and plains, traces the conflictive border zone between Colombia and Venezuela. The region's inhabitants are, today, a mixture of indigenous groups, cattle farmers, both rich and humble, and the inevitable generational pool of all three.

A crofter has successfully "swum" his cows across the sea to their island grazing ground for the winter. Iain Macdonald is thought to be the last p...

Here are some key facts and figures surrounding the debate over controversial plans for a badger cull to tackle bovine tuberculosis (TB). Figures come...

Truly sustainable economics and widespread prosperity can only be based on the viability of the land and its soil--not on increasingly unsustainable supplies of oil.

"We call this area Nairobi," says Wesley Rotich, gazing across a 50 acre basin of severely eroded land, punctuated by red mud stacks of various sizes. "Nairobi is all tall buildings and short buildings and it looks like this."

There is something universally human about a smile--a friendly reminder between people of different races, cultures, ethnicities that we share something in common, some fundamental humanness.

In a dusty room inside a disused Boito warehouse sits a perfectly functioning posho mill, draped in cobwebs and surrounded by corn husks, it hasn't seen service since 2010. The reason: the women's group that owns it can no longer afford to pay Kenya Power for the electricity required to run it.

Scientists have begun the search for the pig with the best legs to strut her stuff on the catwalk. A project to improve health and welfare on UK pi...