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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Rice paddies in coastal Bangladesh, Vietnam, and the Philippines are already losing ground to sal...

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...

That hollow spot on your squash vine where a fruit aborted and shriveled? Across 86 crops and 70 ...

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

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 ...

Rice paddies in eastern China are quietly reorganizing themselves around a climate that no longer...

Cassava and sweet potato feed hundreds of millions of people in Africa, and the same gene-editing...

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

The tomatoes, apples, and greens you harvest or buy degrade faster than they should because of in...

Rice paddies feed half the world on shrinking water budgets — and this single gene edit quietly r...

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...

Drought hotspots in the central US, eastern Brazil, and South Asia are already quietly shrinking ...

If you grow sorghum, finger millet, or pearl millet in a dry-summer garden, you're already workin...

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

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

Tomatoes you grow from seed today are one gene-editing generation away from delivering meaningful...

If you've ever grown potatoes and watched the leaves suddenly turn brown and collapse seemingly o...

If you grow potatoes in your garden, a single cool, wet week in summer is all it takes for late b...

Finger millet, foxtail millet, and their relatives have fed dry-land farmers for millennia — and ...

Every tomato you grow, every wheat field feeding a city, runs on photosynthesis—and wild plant re...

Finger millet is one of the most resilient grains on Earth, thriving where other crops fail, and ...

Buckwheat is the fast-growing cover crop many gardeners already sow between seasons to smother we...

Invasive pests and climate-driven range shifts are already reshaping which crops and garden plant...

Every third bite of food you eat exists because a bee visited a flower — and the models here show...

If you grow tomatoes, potatoes, or grapes in your backyard and something starts going wrong with ...

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

Wheat fields are already shrinking under hotter, drier summers in the grain belts that supply mos...

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

Faster breeding of heat- and drought-tolerant wheat means the loaves, pasta, and flatbreads that ...

Gray mold quietly destroys strawberry and tomato harvests — and the fungicide most growers spray ...

Every loaf of bread you bake depends on wheat plants that can pollinate themselves reliably — and...

Garlic bulbs rotting in storage or collapsing as seedlings can wipe out an entire season's harves...

Mungbean sprouts you grow on your kitchen counter or toss into stir-fries come from a crop so yie...

Ash scattered around garden beds, crop rotation, neem spray, and chili deterrents — techniques yo...

Heavily salted soils look and behave like concrete — water beads off, roots suffocate, and almost...

Every tofu block, edamame pod, and soy milk carton you reach for reflects a decades-long tug-of-w...

Pesticides drifting into tropical soils and waterways break down differently than in temperate cl...

If you grow citrus in a pot on your patio or tend a backyard mandarin, knowing how to spot early ...

If you grow onions at home, Stemphylium blight is the fungal disease most likely to wipe out your...

If you grow onions at home or rely on them in the kitchen, a single season of Stemphylium blight ...

Rice varieties you can actually taste a difference in — more nutritious, with better texture and ...

The bushy, vining tomato taking over your raised bed every August exists because of one ancient g...

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

Every seed packet you tuck into spring soil is the end product of decades of breeding decisions —...

Mungbean goes from seed to harvest in under 60 days and fixes nitrogen back into garden beds, so ...

The wheat and barley fields that feed Australia are being squeezed by heat and drought striking a...

Rice paddy fields you may see along roadsides or in agricultural regions face serious threats fro...

Small-scale rice farmers hand-weeding paddies spend more on labor than on seeds — a locally built...

Every bag of rice on the shelf is shaped by whether smallholder farmers thousands of miles away c...

Every rice bowl, stir-fry vegetable, and cup of tea sourced from southern China comes from farmla...

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...

If the monsoon fails two years running in South Asia, the wheat and rice that fill grocery shelve...

When rural women gain control over which crops to plant and when, entire farming communities beco...

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