food-security

The corn in your grocery store and the staple food keeping millions of East African families fed ...

Fusarium wilt is actively wiping out Cavendish bananas — the variety sold in virtually every groc...

Apples at your grocery store or farmers market depend on a delicate balance of bees and weather, ...

The tomatoes, wheat, and corn your food comes from are being pushed toward their stress limits by...

Wheat in your bread, pasta, and cereal is under serious threat from droughts and heatwaves, and t...

As summers get hotter, the canola oil in your pantry and the rapeseed crops in farmers' fields ar...

Vegetables and grains you eat are growing in an increasingly CO2-rich atmosphere, which may be qu...

Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the strategies outlined in this research could directl...

The tomatoes, wheat, and potatoes in your grocery store are constantly under siege from fungal an...

Bread, rice, and corn on your plate could soon come from crops engineered to survive the hotter, ...

Foods we rely on are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather, and investing in hardier, nutrie...

Cowpea is a vital protein source for millions of people in hot, food-insecure regions, and as sum...

Rice on your plate — and global food prices — depends on scientists solving a yield crisis now, b...

The wheat in your bread, the strawberries in your garden, and the cotton in your clothes all carr...

Cassava feeds over 800 million people worldwide, and this discovery could lead to disease-resista...

Understanding exactly which potato smells attract destructive moths could help breeders develop p...

Same fungi attacking lab crops also threaten the wheat in your bread, the rice in your pantry, an...

Oomycetes cause the kind of plant diseases that rot your tomatoes, wipe out potato crops, and can...

Rice is the staple food for half the world's population, and these molecular tools could soon pro...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and these new genetic tools could help breeders...

The tomatoes, wheat, and rice that stock your grocery shelves could soon be engineered to survive...

Bread, fruit, and vegetables on your table are under constant threat from fungal diseases, and be...

The rice, wheat, or corn in your pantry could soon be engineered to carry more iron, zinc, or vit...

Rice prices at your grocery store are quietly tied to monsoon reliability in South Asia — and thi...

Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and faster, more reliable gene-editing methods ...

Strawberries, bananas, and tomatoes at your grocery store could soon be bred to resist disease an...

China grows more apples than any other country, and knowing exactly where those orchards are help...

Tef is the grain behind injera, the flatbread eaten daily across Ethiopia and increasingly found ...

Viral diseases can wipe out entire crops before farmers even know they're present, and catching t...

Wheat in your bread increasingly faces climate disruptions at planting time, and this research sh...

Humble sweet potato — something you might already grow in your garden — could be a frontline solu...

Crops most vulnerable to drought — maize and sorghum — are staple foods for millions of people, a...

The mustard on your supermarket shelf and the canola oil in your pantry could soon come from plan...

Macadamia nuts in your grocery store could become harder to find and more expensive as this newly...

Planting climbing beans next to your corn patch can feed the soil, crowd out weeds, and put more ...

Quinoa's ability to grow on salty, drought-prone land could soon give smallholder farmers in some...

It shows that giving exhausted, overgrazed land a chance to recover can directly improve the food...

Bananas are one of the world's most consumed fruits, and new discoveries about their biology coul...

Bread on your table passes through many hands before it gets there — this system helps ensure the...

Roughly 10% of the world's food exports pass through Egypt's Nile Delta, and the irrigation water...

The same monsoon patterns that historically wiped out harvests across China still govern rainfall...