The headline of this article was amended on 28/05/20 to indicate the study has not confirmed solar parks offer better biodiversity impacts than monoculture farming.

Growing up on a farm in a remote part of Cameroon, I learned at my mother’s side about the conditions needed for plants and ...

Growing coffee in agroforestry systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) supports 19 times higher biodiversity and stores twice as much carbon compared with monoculture systems, while ...

In its second year, over 11,500 participants pledged to convert 36 million sq. ft. of turf to sustainable alternatives for ...

Industrial agriculture = monoculture. Small farms = biodiversity. Small, organic farms like Rick Knoll’s are able to eliminate their reliance on petrochemical-based fertilizers and pesticides.

Monoculture palm oil production has come at the cost of rainforest habitat, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. Researchers are conducting experimental trials in Malaysian Borneo to see if ...

Monoculture farming -- which involves growing only one type of crop at a time on a specific field -- is a common agricultural practice, especially in the U.S., which has about 440 million acres ...

Diversity and productivity go branch-in-branch Canadian dryland forest productivity boosted by functional diversity in hard times Date: April 26, 2024 Source: Kyoto University Summary: Researchers ...