Food and Agricultural Sciences

Our food and agricultural sciences hub covers a range of research papers and news stories on the many processes involved in food cultivation and production. Subtopics include how animals and crops can influence the sustainability of farms and how to address food security and supply. From having suitable soil to climate change impacting our food products, we look at all of these aspects in our collated pages.

Global Market Report: Agricultural Science

In this article, we discuss the applications and recent developments of agricultural science. We also assess the global market and predict how the sector will evolve in the future.

Overview

If you’re looking for the answers to questions such as ‘what is food science?’ and ‘what is agricultural science?’, you’ll find them here. This section provides two key articles on food and agricultural science and a changeable, exciting topic. Scientists write these posts to provide agricultural education and further information on food systems, agricultural productivity and similar matters.

Investigating the Intersection between Agriculture and Biotechnology

How Will Climate Change Affect the Taste of Beer?

What is Agricultural Science?

Feature Articles

Our featured articles include a wide variety of topics under the food and agricultural sciences category. For example, what are the risks food chains face? What is vertical farming or how to develop sustainable foods? Our writers discuss food waste, antibiotic resistance in agriculture, using gene editing for plant health, and other fascinating matters relating to the development of food and the food industry.

What is Food Science?

Implementing Big Data to Boost the Agricultural Sector

Under the Sea; Importance of Underwater Robots and Drones in Sea Farming

Investigating the Role of Field Mapping in Agriculture

Importance of Biodiversity in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

What Role does Agriculture Play within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

Everything You Need to Know About Vertical Farming

How, When, and Why to Add Lime to Your Soil

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How are Drones Changing the Future of Agriculture?

What are the Risks In the Food Chain?

Insight into Food Waste

Impacts of Climate Change on Soil Health

How Does Biochar Affect the Environment?

Investigating the Impact of Disasters on Food and Agriculture

How Do Agricultural Management Techniques Affect Soil Quality?

Antibiotic Resistance in Agriculture

From Rain to Sun; How Weather Monitoring Helps Agriculture

Mangroves: A Key to Restoring the Oceans

What is Intercropping?

What is Regenerative Agriculture?

Farm Biosecurity

Pushing Towards the SDGs in Everyday Science

Insight into Genetically Modified Food

Food Preservation Methods

The Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture

Using Plants to Detect Explosives

Illegal Fishing and Its Impacts on Conservation and Fisheries

Chemistry of Food Additives and Preservatives

Importance of Biotechnology in Agriculture

Role of Analytical Chemistry in Agriculture

What are Cover Crops and Why are They Useful?

What is Food Microbiology?

Boosting Plant Health Using Gene Editing

Environmental Problems caused by Polymers

Importance of Healthy Ecosystems for Global Health

What are Herbicides?

A Guide to Plant Hormones

The Implications of Evolution in Agriculture

Insight into the Biggest Challenges Faced by the Aquaculture Industry

Less Fishing to Fish More – Strategies to Replenish Fishery Stocks

What Causes Soil Erosion?

Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture

How can Soil Increase Food Production?

How are Crops Gaining Resistance?

What is Organic Farming?

Organic vs Inorganic Farming

What is Food Safety?

The Science Behind Hunger

Microbes in Raw Fish

Protein and Bloating

Effect of pH on Plant Growth

Effects of Drought on Farming

Effect of Light on Wheat Plants

Indigenous Technology and Climate Change

Insight into the World of Agricultural Robotics

COVID-19 and Food Safety

A Guide to Growing Crops in Cold Climates

Analyzing the Growing Threat of Soil Extinction

Detecting and Identifying Flavonoids

What is Quality Control in Food Science?

Investigating the Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Farming

Is Genetics the Key to the Evolution of Aquaculture?

Arsenic in Rice; Should you be Concerned?

Are Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Saving the World?

Applications of Spectroscopy in Agriculture

Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yields

How is the Flower Industry Impacting the Planet?

Food Science and Artificial Intelligence

A Guide to Improving Crop Production in Dry Climates

Does Migration Affect Agriculture Production?

Food Science and Biotechnology

Integrated Approaches to Reduce Food Waste and Loss

Investigating Caffeine Levels in Drinks

Investigating a Wines Character using Chromatography

Poultry Farming: An Overview

How can we Improve the Shelf-Life of Seafood?

What is Tillage?

Gut Microbes in Determining Food Allergies in Children

What is Bioenergy?

Effect of Human Activity on Plant Biodiversity

Deforestation and its Drawbacks

Daily Life of a Food Scientist

Water Stress on Cotton Plants

Soil Erosion- How Does it Affect Agriculture?

Fish Hatcheries- Benefits and Drawbacks

Beef Jerky and Mania

Why is Rosewood so Expensive?

How does the Keto Diet Affect the Immune System?

Determining Nitrogen Levels in Soil

Synthetic Food: An Overview

Effects of Filtered Coffee on Plasma Metabolites

How can we Feed the Planet Without Affecting the Climate?

Microbes in Raw Meat

How do Crops Get Lost to Pests?

Adapting and Developing Aquaculture Practices in an Era of Climate Change

How are Microbes used to Restore Degraded Soil?

How Does Manure Effect the Growth of Plants?

Benefits of Vertical Agriculture and Hydroponics

Bio farming - A Holistic Approach to Ensure Environmental Sustainability

How Diverse are Cropping Systems?

Pesticides in Agriculture

What is Aquaculture?

What are the Health Benefits of Organic Food?

How could Gene Editing solve Food Allergies?

Bioremediation: An Overview

Smart Farming: The Sustainable Future for Food

Sustainable Soil Management and the Role of Spectroscopy

Life After COVID: Building Back Greener and Better

How Important are Sensors to Agriculture?

Food Packaging Applications for Equilibrium Modified Atmosphere Packaging

Environmental Metabolomics

Will Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Food Industry?

How do Food Sensitivity Assays Work?

ATR-FTIR in the Food and Beverage Industry

Improving Crop Yields using Genetics

Automation in Agriculture

Everything you need to know about Palm Oil

The Application of Computational Modeling in Contemporary Fisheries

Can a Microbe Convert Greenhouse Gases to Commodity Products?

Implications of Genetically Modified Organisms for Fisheries

Reducing Pesticide Use in Agriculture

Threats in the Food Chain

The Domestication of Crops and Animals throughout Agricultural History

Wellbeing in an Era of Global Change: The Implications of Ocean Acidification on Food Production and How it Links to Human Wellbeing

Speed Breeding: A Promising Tool for Growing World Population

Plant Pathology

Importance of Nematology in Agriculture

Effect of Food on the Gut Microbiome

A Guide to Increasing Water Efficiency in Farming

Women in Agriculture

Science of Spicy Foods

Importance of Healthy Ecosystems for Global Health

Formulating Pesticides for Sustainable Agriculture

How is Climate Change Affecting Food Security?

Insight into Soil Health

How can we End Hunger?

How has COVID-19 Affected Food Security?

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture

Feeding the Future; Ensuring Food Security for All

How to Reduce your Food Waste

The Future of Seaweed Farming

Cultured Meat During the Climate Crisis

Seed Storing- Protecting the Future of Food

What has COP26 taught us about Sustainable Agriculture?

Hot Melt Extrusion in the Pharmaceutical and Food Industries

Noise Pollution and its Effects on Coral Reefs

How is Pollution Changing the Chemistry of the Ocean?

What is Agro-Terrorism?

Does Your Diet Affect Your DNA?

Using DNA to Fight Crop Diseases

What is the Bioeconomy?

How Vulnerable is the Agricultural Industry to Climate Change?

How is Pulse Farming Beneficial to the Environment?

The Nutritional Benefits of Pulses

Why is Wildlife Conservation Crucial to a Sustainable Future?

Solving the Biodiversity Crisis

Investigating the Importance of Groundwater

The Impacts of a Growing Population on Agriculture

Application of Proteomics in Agriculture

Use of Genetics in Agriculture

Using Biochemistry to Improve Crop Cultivation

What is Urban Agriculture?

How did Antibiotics in Food Transform Agriculture?

Could Eating Insects be the Future of Food?

Investigating the Vulnerability of the Food Industry to Cyberattacks

What does the Future of Food Look Like?

Protecting the Genetic Diversity of Food

Food for Thought; How the Food we Eat Affects the Brain

Insight into Global Food Inequalities

Insight into the Challenges of the Seafood Industry

'Land Sparing' vs. 'Land Sharing' Agriculture

How to Make the Best Jam According to Science

Secret Sugar; Finding Hidden Sugars in the Food You Eat

How can Green Chemistry Help Solve the Global Threat of Food Security?

How can Genetically Modified Seeds Improve Food Security?

How do Microbes Give Cheese its Flavor?

Could CRISPR Change the Future of our Food?

What are the Most Common Adulterated Foods?

The Aquatic Toxicity of the Pulp Paper Industry

What is Soil Pollution?

What is Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)?

What is 'Blue Food'?

How Have Consumer Habits Changed Since COVID-19?

How to Live a Greener Life

What is Humus, and Why is it Important?

The Ocean to Humanity: Connection, Sustenance, Support

How are Food Microbes Saving Lives?

The Link Between Food Waste and Sustainability

Are Wildfires Good for Biodiversity?

Excess Fertilizer Use and Soil Health

Investigating the Relationship Between Food Allergies and Eczema

Spectroscopy's Role in Geochemistry

Latest Food and Agricultural Sciences News and Research

Whether it’s a discovery regarding pesticides or a novel code in genome editing, this section will include all of the latest news from food and agricultural science. These news pieces will be collected from around the world to bring you a range of discoveries and interesting facts on how we cultivate food and more.

Beneficial microbes in the infant gut use nitrogen from human milk to support pediatric development

A University of Massachusetts Amherst nutrition scientist who has spent his career studying breast milk has demonstrated how beneficial microbes in the gut of infants use nitrogen from human milk to support pediatric nutrition and development.

28 Mar 2023

Scientists develop a detailed "protein atlas" of a pathogen for the first time

A parasite which has devasting impacts on agriculture and human health is the first pathogen to have its proteins located and mapped within its cells – providing clues to their function and helping to identify potential drug targets.

27 Mar 2023

How specialized plant “train tracks” can be used to feed the expanding population

A new study will examine the possibility that specialized plant “train tracks” that transport chemicals within cells could help in feeding the world’s expanding population.

From The University of Warwick 23 Mar 2023

Immunity adaptation found in genomes of Stone Age farmers

New research suggests that diversity in genes implicated in immunity might have facilitated the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to agriculture that occurred in prehistoric Europe over the course of around 1,500 years.

23 Mar 2023

Pesticide residues in water test kit for sustainable and safe agriculture

Farmers in Thailand still largely use chemical herbicides, especially paraquat and atrazine, to control weeds on their farms. According to research by the Office of Agricultural Economics, in 2019, Thailand imported almost 10 million kilograms of paraquat and close to 3.5 million kilograms of atrazine.

23 Mar 2023

CABBI/GLBRC researchers peer into the complexities of life on a leaf

"Have you ever wondered about life on a leaf?" Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) researcher Ashley Shade asks a simple question, but it's one well worth investigation.

22 Mar 2023

Newly designed robot can effectively perform Synecoculture farming

Synecoculture is a new agricultural method advocated by Dr. Masatoshi Funabashi, senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL), in which various kinds of plants are mixed and grown in high density, establishing rich biodiversity while benefiting from the self-organizing ability of the ecosystem.

21 Mar 2023

Including more women in decision-making could help farmers improve conservation and production

When a family of five-ton elephants stomps and chomps its way through your crops, there's only one winner. And in the central African nation of Gabon, farmers are getting fed up with the giant animals trampling their fields-;and their livelihoods.

21 Mar 2023

T cell-driven changes in the gut may affect brain function associated with depression

In experiments with mice and humans, a team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers says it has identified a particular intestinal immune cell that impacts the gut microbiome, which in turn may affect brain functions linked to stress-induced disorders such as depression.

21 Mar 2023

Could 3D Printing Help Solve Food Insecurity?

Researchers from the University of Ottawa have outlined a range of factors that feed into the quality of food produced by additive manufacturing.

21 Mar 2023

WVU horticulture expert offers insights on how plants weather up-and-down temperatures

A West Virginia University expert is offering insights on the effects lingering winter weather and fluctuating temperatures could have on trees, shrubs and flowers heading into the official start of spring on Monday, March 20.

20 Mar 2023

High doses of sucralose limit T cell proliferation and differentiation

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have found that high consumption of a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, lowers activation of T-cells, an important component of the immune system, in mice.

16 Mar 2023

First molecular images of olfaction sets the stage to create novel smells

Breaking a longstanding impasse in our understanding of olfaction, scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odor molecule activates a human odorant receptor, a crucial step in deciphering the sense of smell.

16 Mar 2023

Study: Cultivating edible fungi alongside trees could feed millions

Growing edible mushrooms alongside trees can produce a valuable food source for millions of people while capturing carbon, mitigating the impact of climate change, a new study by University of Stirling scientists has found.

16 Mar 2023

Deciphering the mechanisms used by a fungus to increase iron acquisition

The University of Cordoba discovered how the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhiziumbrunneum increases iron acquisition in melon and cucumber.

15 Mar 2023

SMART researchers develop the world's first microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and their collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have developed the first-ever microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants.

14 Mar 2023

Demonstrating the effects of wildflowers on the health and reproduction rate of bumblebees

University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Lynn Adler has won the Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for her research demonstrating that different kinds of wildflowers can have markedly different effects on the health and reproduction rate of bumblebees.

14 Mar 2023

Microorganisms can help tackle conflicts across the globe: Study

Microorganisms should be 'weaponized' to stave off conflicts across the globe, according to a team of eminent microbiologists.

13 Mar 2023

Scientists discover mechanism behind how plants can develop long-term immunity to stress

A mechanism behind how plants can develop long-term immunity to stress has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

8 Mar 2023

Largest-ever genetic analysis provides insight into domestications and origin of traits in grapevine

In the largest ever genetic analysis of grapevine varieties, including samples from previously undocumented specimens in private collections, researchers provide new insights into how, when, and where wine and table grapevines were domesticated, which has been a longstanding question.

3 Mar 2023

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