Dr Nair discusses the importance of conserving Crop Wild Relatives, lessons of India's Green Revolution, environmental ...

Have we entered the golden age of plant engineering? In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural innovation known as the Green Revolution ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Around 65% of Africa’s farmland is degraded due to decades of mono-cropping and overgrazing Nairobi Declaration aims to ...

How does climate change affect where and how we live? The energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution. And climate change threatens communities ...

Kumar’s multifaceted book recounts the story of India’s green revolution—or how the country became self-sufficient in food grain production by the 1970s. This revolution had its origins in colonial ...

Pakistan sees farming potential amid the rolling sand dunes of Punjab’s Cholistan desert. Here, in the South Asian nation’s vast central plains, the government plans to lease massive tracts of ...

Meru, Embu, and Tharaka Nithi counties are witnessing a green revolution with the rapid adoption of high-yielding upland rice varieties. This promising shift is spearheaded by a collaboration between ...

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, 98, popularly known as the father of India’s Green Revolution, died at his Chennai home on Thursday. Under his tutelage, in a career spanning nearly half a century, ...